KR vs. YUM, FAST, CPNG, ROST, DG, TSCO, AZO, EBAY, DLTR, and JD
Should you be buying Kroger stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kroger include Yum! Brands (YUM), Fastenal (FAST), Coupang (CPNG), Ross Stores (ROST), Dollar General (DG), Tractor Supply (TSCO), AutoZone (AZO), eBay (EBAY), Dollar Tree (DLTR), and JD.com (JD). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Kroger (NYSE:KR) and Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
80.9% of Kroger shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.4% of Yum! Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Kroger shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Yum! Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kroger received 29 more outperform votes than Yum! Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.30% of users gave Yum! Brands an outperform vote while only 65.09% of users gave Kroger an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Kroger had 24 more articles in the media than Yum! Brands. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Kroger and 12 mentions for Yum! Brands. Yum! Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Kroger's score of 0.30 indicating that Yum! Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kroger pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Yum! Brands pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Kroger pays out 39.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Yum! Brands pays out 47.5% 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. Kroger is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Kroger has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yum! Brands has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kroger currently has a consensus price target of $55.17, indicating a potential upside of 4.70%. Yum! Brands has a consensus price target of $143.27, indicating a potential upside of 4.61%. Given Kroger's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Kroger is more favorable than Yum! Brands.
Yum! Brands has a net margin of 22.92% compared to Kroger's net margin of 1.44%. Kroger's return on equity of 31.44% beat Yum! Brands' return on equity.
Kroger has higher revenue and earnings than Yum! Brands. Kroger is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yum! Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Kroger and Yum! Brands tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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