WMK vs. IMKTA, NGVC, VLGEA, KR, CASY, ASAI, TBBB, GO, ARKO, and MSS
Should you be buying Weis Markets stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Weis Markets include Ingles Markets (IMKTA), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Kroger (KR), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Sendas Distribuidora (ASAI), BBB Foods (TBBB), Grocery Outlet (GO), Arko (ARKO), and Maison Solutions (MSS).
Weis Markets (NYSE:WMK) and Ingles Markets (NASDAQ:IMKTA) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
Ingles Markets has higher revenue and earnings than Weis Markets. Ingles Markets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Weis Markets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
62.5% of Ingles Markets shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.1% of Weis Markets shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.1% of Ingles Markets shares are owned by company 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.
Ingles Markets received 99 more outperform votes than Weis Markets when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.69% of users gave Weis Markets an outperform vote while only 63.56% of users gave Ingles Markets an outperform vote.
Ingles Markets has a net margin of 3.00% compared to Weis Markets' net margin of 2.14%. Ingles Markets' return on equity of 11.97% beat Weis Markets' return on equity.
Weis Markets pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Ingles Markets pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Weis Markets pays out 36.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ingles Markets pays out 7.1% 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.
In the previous week, Ingles Markets had 10 more articles in the media than Weis Markets. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Ingles Markets and 0 mentions for Weis Markets. Ingles Markets' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Weis Markets' score of 0.00 indicating that Ingles Markets is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Weis Markets has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingles Markets has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ingles Markets beats Weis Markets on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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