ARKO vs. GO, IMKTA, NGVC, VLGEA, MSS, WMK, KR, ACI, SFM, and ASAI
Should you be buying Arko stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arko include Grocery Outlet (GO), Ingles Markets (IMKTA), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Maison Solutions (MSS), Weis Markets (WMK), Kroger (KR), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), and Sendas Distribuidora (ASAI). These companies are all part of the "grocery stores" industry.
Arko (NASDAQ:ARKO) and Grocery Outlet (NASDAQ:GO) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Grocery Outlet has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Arko. Arko is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grocery Outlet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
78.3% of Arko shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Grocery Outlet shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.6% of Arko 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Grocery Outlet received 10 more outperform votes than Arko when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 38.89% of users gave Arko an outperform vote while only 32.00% of users gave Grocery Outlet an outperform vote.
Grocery Outlet has a net margin of 1.60% compared to Arko's net margin of 0.39%. Arko's return on equity of 13.20% beat Grocery Outlet's return on equity.
In the previous week, Grocery Outlet had 9 more articles in the media than Arko. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Grocery Outlet and 4 mentions for Arko. Arko's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Grocery Outlet's score of 0.77 indicating that Arko is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Arko has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grocery Outlet has a beta of 0.13, suggesting that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Arko currently has a consensus target price of $7.33, suggesting a potential upside of 30.49%. Grocery Outlet has a consensus target price of $28.90, suggesting a potential upside of 29.19%. Given Arko's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Arko is more favorable than Grocery Outlet.
Summary
Grocery Outlet beats Arko on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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