DNUT vs. GO, EPC, WLYB, WLY, TR, THS, ENR, MGPI, KLG, and PZZA
Should you be buying Krispy Kreme stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Krispy Kreme include Grocery Outlet (GO), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), TreeHouse Foods (THS), Energizer (ENR), MGP Ingredients (MGPI), WK Kellogg (KLG), and Papa John's International (PZZA).
Krispy Kreme (NASDAQ:DNUT) and Grocery Outlet (NASDAQ:GO) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.
81.7% of Krispy Kreme shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Grocery Outlet shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% of Krispy Kreme shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Grocery Outlet shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Krispy Kreme presently has a consensus price target of $16.31, indicating a potential upside of 35.49%. Grocery Outlet has a consensus price target of $28.90, indicating a potential upside of 28.62%. Given Krispy Kreme's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Krispy Kreme is more favorable than Grocery Outlet.
Krispy Kreme has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grocery Outlet has a beta of 0.13, meaning that its stock price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Grocery Outlet had 10 more articles in the media than Krispy Kreme. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Grocery Outlet and 15 mentions for Krispy Kreme. Grocery Outlet's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Krispy Kreme's score of 0.37 indicating that Grocery Outlet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Krispy Kreme received 2 more outperform votes than Grocery Outlet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 37.14% of users gave Krispy Kreme an outperform vote while only 32.00% of users gave Grocery Outlet an outperform vote.
Grocery Outlet has higher revenue and earnings than Krispy Kreme. Krispy Kreme is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grocery Outlet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Grocery Outlet has a net margin of 1.60% compared to Krispy Kreme's net margin of -2.70%. Grocery Outlet's return on equity of 5.46% beat Krispy Kreme's return on equity.
Summary
Grocery Outlet beats Krispy Kreme on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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