VLGEA vs. NGVC, IMKTA, CBD, GRPN, HEPS, LE, DENN, BH, HVT, and BBW
Should you be buying Village Super Market stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Village Super Market include Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Ingles Markets (IMKTA), Companhia Brasileira De Distribuicao (CBD), Groupon (GRPN), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), Lands' End (LE), Denny's (DENN), Biglari (BH), Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT), and Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NYSE:NGVC) and Village Super Market (NASDAQ:VLGEA) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage had 1 more articles in the media than Village Super Market. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage and 1 mentions for Village Super Market. Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Village Super Market's score of 1.12 indicating that Village Super Market is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Village Super Market has higher revenue and earnings than Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage. Village Super Market is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Village Super Market pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage pays out 31.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Village Super Market pays out 28.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Village Super Market is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Village Super Market has a beta of 0.3, suggesting that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage received 255 more outperform votes than Village Super Market when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.26% of users gave Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage an outperform vote while only 58.93% of users gave Village Super Market an outperform vote.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage has a net margin of 2.42% compared to Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage's net margin of 2.39%. Village Super Market's return on equity of 17.60% beat Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage's return on equity.
32.0% of Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of Village Super Market shares are owned by institutional investors. 59.4% of Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 64.4% of Village Super Market shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Village Super Market beats Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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