CPG vs. GRG, GNK, MAB, SSPG, DOM, EIG, JDW, RTN, YNGA, and LGRS
Should you be buying Compass Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Compass Group include Greggs (GRG), Greene King (GNK), Mitchells & Butlers (MAB), SSP Group (SSPG), Domino's Pizza Group (DOM), Ei Group plc (EIG.L) (EIG), J D Wetherspoon (JDW), The Restaurant Group (RTN), Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (YNGA), and Loungers (LGRS). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Compass Group (LON:CPG) and Greggs (LON:GRG) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Compass Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 45 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Greggs pays an annual dividend of GBX 62 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Compass Group pays out 5,769.2% 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 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Compass Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,374, suggesting a potential upside of 8.95%. Greggs has a consensus price target of GBX 3,375, suggesting a potential upside of 16.86%. Given Greggs' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Greggs is more favorable than Compass Group.
Compass Group received 114 more outperform votes than Greggs when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.14% of users gave Greggs an outperform vote while only 60.09% of users gave Compass Group an outperform vote.
77.3% of Compass Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of Greggs shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Compass Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Greggs shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Compass Group has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greggs has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Greggs had 2 more articles in the media than Compass Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Greggs and 1 mentions for Compass Group. Greggs' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Compass Group's score of 0.20 indicating that Greggs is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Greggs has a net margin of 7.87% compared to Compass Group's net margin of 4.26%. Greggs' return on equity of 29.17% beat Compass Group's return on equity.
Compass Group has higher revenue and earnings than Greggs. Greggs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Compass Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Greggs beats Compass Group on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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