TSCO vs. MRW, SBRY, OCDO, DFIB, CBOX, MCLS, CRAW, DGE, BATS, and RKT
Should you be buying Tesco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tesco include Wm Morrison Supermarkets (MRW), J Sainsbury (SBRY), Ocado Group (OCDO), DFI Retail Group (DFIB), Cake Box (CBOX), McColl's Retail Group (MCLS), Crawshaw Group (CRAW), Diageo (DGE), British American Tobacco (BATS), and Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT).
Wm Morrison Supermarkets (LON:MRW) and Tesco (LON:TSCO) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability and institutional ownership.
Tesco has a net margin of 1.74% compared to Tesco's net margin of 0.00%. Wm Morrison Supermarkets' return on equity of 14.77% beat Tesco's return on equity.
Tesco received 631 more outperform votes than Wm Morrison Supermarkets when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.59% of users gave Tesco an outperform vote while only 43.23% of users gave Wm Morrison Supermarkets an outperform vote.
Tesco has higher revenue and earnings than Wm Morrison Supermarkets. Wm Morrison Supermarkets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tesco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tesco has a consensus price target of GBX 313.33, indicating a potential upside of 2.46%. Given Wm Morrison Supermarkets' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Tesco is more favorable than Wm Morrison Supermarkets.
In the previous week, Tesco had 2 more articles in the media than Wm Morrison Supermarkets. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Tesco and 0 mentions for Wm Morrison Supermarkets. Wm Morrison Supermarkets' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Tesco's score of 0.00 indicating that Tesco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wm Morrison Supermarkets pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Tesco pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Wm Morrison Supermarkets pays out -6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tesco pays out 4,800.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
63.4% of Tesco shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Tesco shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Tesco beats Wm Morrison Supermarkets on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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