GRG vs. GNK, MAB, DOM, SSPG, EIG, JDW, RTN, YNGA, LGRS, and DPEU
Should you be buying Greggs stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Greggs include Greene King (GNK), Mitchells & Butlers (MAB), Domino's Pizza Group (DOM), SSP Group (SSPG), Ei Group plc (EIG.L) (EIG), J D Wetherspoon (JDW), The Restaurant Group (RTN), Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (YNGA), Loungers (LGRS), and DP Eurasia (DPEU). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Greene King (LON:GNK) and Greggs (LON:GRG) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
Greggs has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Greene King. Greene King is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greggs, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Greene King received 248 more outperform votes than Greggs when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.37% of users gave Greene King an outperform vote while only 64.14% of users gave Greggs an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Greggs had 4 more articles in the media than Greene King. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Greggs and 1 mentions for Greene King. Greene King's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Greggs' score of 0.67 indicating that Greggs is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Greene King pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.33 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Greggs pays an annual dividend of GBX 62 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Greene King pays out 0.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Greggs pays out 4,460.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Greggs has a consensus target price of GBX 3,375, indicating a potential upside of 18.42%. Given Greene King's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Greggs is more favorable than Greene King.
Greggs has a net margin of 7.87% compared to Greggs' net margin of 0.00%. Greene King's return on equity of 29.17% beat Greggs' return on equity.
59.9% of Greggs shares are held by institutional investors. 5.8% of Greggs shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Greggs beats Greene King on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding GRG and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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