GO vs. WMK, IMKTA, TBBB, ARKO, EPC, DNUT, WLYB, WLY, TR, and ENR
Should you be buying Grocery Outlet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grocery Outlet include Weis Markets (WMK), Ingles Markets (IMKTA), BBB Foods (TBBB), Arko (ARKO), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), and Energizer (ENR).
Grocery Outlet (NASDAQ:GO) and Weis Markets (NYSE:WMK) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and profitability.
99.9% of Grocery Outlet shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Grocery Outlet shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 27.1% of Weis Markets shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Grocery Outlet has a beta of 0.13, suggesting that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Weis Markets has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Weis Markets has higher revenue and earnings than Grocery Outlet. Weis Markets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grocery Outlet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Weis Markets received 177 more outperform votes than Grocery Outlet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.69% of users gave Weis Markets an outperform vote while only 32.00% of users gave Grocery Outlet an outperform vote.
Grocery Outlet presently has a consensus target price of $28.90, indicating a potential upside of 28.62%. Given Grocery Outlet's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Grocery Outlet is more favorable than Weis Markets.
Weis Markets has a net margin of 2.14% compared to Grocery Outlet's net margin of 1.60%. Weis Markets' return on equity of 7.40% beat Grocery Outlet's return on equity.
In the previous week, Grocery Outlet had 22 more articles in the media than Weis Markets. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Grocery Outlet and 3 mentions for Weis Markets. Weis Markets' average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Grocery Outlet's score of 0.76 indicating that Weis Markets is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Weis Markets beats Grocery Outlet on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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