GRG vs. OCDO, SBRY, TATE, CWK, BVIC, PFD, FEVR, HFG, BAKK, and BME
Should you be buying Greggs stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Greggs include Ocado Group (OCDO), J Sainsbury (SBRY), Tate & Lyle (TATE), Cranswick (CWK), Britvic (BVIC), Premier Foods (PFD), Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), Hilton Food Group (HFG), Bakkavor Group (BAKK), and B&M European Value Retail (BME). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Ocado Group (LON:OCDO) and Greggs (LON:GRG) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking and risk.
56.4% of Ocado Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.8% of Greggs shares are held by institutional investors. 30.2% of Ocado Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Greggs shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Greggs has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ocado Group. Ocado Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greggs, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ocado Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 515, suggesting a potential upside of 44.83%. Greggs has a consensus price target of GBX 3,035, suggesting a potential upside of 11.50%. Given Greggs' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Ocado Group is more favorable than Greggs.
In the previous week, Ocado Group and Ocado Group both had 3 articles in the media. Ocado Group's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Greggs' score of -0.56 indicating that Greggs is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ocado Group has a beta of 1.71, suggesting that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greggs has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Greggs has a net margin of 7.87% compared to Greggs' net margin of -11.11%. Ocado Group's return on equity of 29.17% beat Greggs' return on equity.
Ocado Group received 149 more outperform votes than Greggs when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.13% of users gave Greggs an outperform vote while only 56.01% of users gave Ocado Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Greggs beats Ocado Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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