BME vs. SBRY, OCDO, GRG, TATE, CWK, BVIC, PFD, FEVR, CCH, and BNZL
Should you be buying B&M European Value Retail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B&M European Value Retail include J Sainsbury (SBRY), Ocado Group (OCDO), Greggs (GRG), Tate & Lyle (TATE), Cranswick (CWK), Britvic (BVIC), Premier Foods (PFD), Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), Coca-Cola HBC (CCH), and Bunzl (BNZL). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
B&M European Value Retail (LON:BME) and J Sainsbury (LON:SBRY) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
B&M European Value Retail currently has a consensus price target of GBX 588.29, indicating a potential upside of 7.59%. J Sainsbury has a consensus price target of GBX 285.67, indicating a potential upside of 0.37%. Given B&M European Value Retail's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe B&M European Value Retail is more favorable than J Sainsbury.
B&M European Value Retail pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. J Sainsbury pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. B&M European Value Retail pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. J Sainsbury pays out 21,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
62.0% of B&M European Value Retail shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.1% of J Sainsbury shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of B&M European Value Retail shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of J Sainsbury shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
B&M European Value Retail has higher earnings, but lower revenue than J Sainsbury. B&M European Value Retail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J Sainsbury, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
B&M European Value Retail has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J Sainsbury has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, J Sainsbury had 2 more articles in the media than B&M European Value Retail. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for J Sainsbury and 3 mentions for B&M European Value Retail. B&M European Value Retail's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat J Sainsbury's score of 0.64 indicating that B&M European Value Retail is being referred to more favorably in the media.
J Sainsbury received 169 more outperform votes than B&M European Value Retail when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 81.28% of users gave B&M European Value Retail an outperform vote while only 51.48% of users gave J Sainsbury an outperform vote.
B&M European Value Retail has a net margin of 6.80% compared to J Sainsbury's net margin of 0.42%. B&M European Value Retail's return on equity of 43.42% beat J Sainsbury's return on equity.
Summary
B&M European Value Retail beats J Sainsbury on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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