BME vs. SBRY, OCDO, GRG, TATE, CWK, BVIC, PFD, CCH, BNZL, and IMB
Should you be buying B&M European Value Retail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B&M European Value Retail include J Sainsbury (SBRY), Ocado Group (OCDO), Greggs (GRG), Tate & Lyle (TATE), Cranswick (CWK), Britvic (BVIC), Premier Foods (PFD), Coca-Cola HBC (CCH), Bunzl (BNZL), and Imperial Brands (IMB). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
J Sainsbury (LON:SBRY) and B&M European Value Retail (LON:BME) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
B&M European Value Retail has a net margin of 6.80% compared to B&M European Value Retail's net margin of 0.24%. J Sainsbury's return on equity of 43.42% beat B&M European Value Retail's return on equity.
67.9% of J Sainsbury shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.2% of B&M European Value Retail shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% of J Sainsbury shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of B&M European Value Retail shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
B&M European Value Retail has lower revenue, but higher earnings than J Sainsbury. B&M European Value Retail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J Sainsbury, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
J Sainsbury received 169 more outperform votes than B&M European Value Retail when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 81.36% of users gave B&M European Value Retail an outperform vote while only 51.51% of users gave J Sainsbury an outperform vote.
J Sainsbury has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, B&M European Value Retail has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
J Sainsbury pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. B&M European Value Retail pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. J Sainsbury pays out 43,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. B&M European Value Retail pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, J Sainsbury had 2 more articles in the media than B&M European Value Retail. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for J Sainsbury and 7 mentions for B&M European Value Retail. J Sainsbury's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat B&M European Value Retail's score of 0.29 indicating that B&M European Value Retail is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
J Sainsbury currently has a consensus price target of GBX 281.67, indicating a potential upside of 5.10%. B&M European Value Retail has a consensus price target of GBX 583.29, indicating a potential upside of 13.00%. Given J Sainsbury's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe B&M European Value Retail is more favorable than J Sainsbury.
Summary
B&M European Value Retail beats J Sainsbury on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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