VLGEA vs. NGVC, IMKTA, CBD, BBW, QRTEA, LE, CRMT, GRPN, HEPS, and MYTE
Should you be buying Village Super Market stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Village Super Market include Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Ingles Markets (IMKTA), Companhia Brasileira De Distribuicao (CBD), Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), Qurate Retail (QRTEA), Lands' End (LE), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), Groupon (GRPN), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), and MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NYSE:NGVC) and Village Super Market (NASDAQ:VLGEA) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
32.0% of Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of Village Super Market shares are owned by institutional investors. 59.4% of Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 64.4% of Village Super Market shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Village Super Market has higher revenue and earnings than Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage. Village Super Market is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Village Super Market has a beta of 0.3, meaning that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage received 255 more outperform votes than Village Super Market when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.26% of users gave Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage an outperform vote while only 58.93% of users gave Village Super Market an outperform vote.
Village Super Market has a net margin of 2.39% compared to Village Super Market's net margin of 2.29%. Village Super Market's return on equity of 16.69% beat Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage's return on equity.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Village Super Market pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage pays out 34.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Village Super Market pays out 28.3% 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. Village Super Market is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage and Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage both had 2 articles in the media. Village Super Market's average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage's score of 0.00 indicating that Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Village Super Market beats Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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