CBOX vs. MCLS, CRAW, TSCO, MRW, SBRY, DFIB, OCDO, MCB, KITW, and PURE
Should you be buying Cake Box stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cake Box include McColl's Retail Group (MCLS), Crawshaw Group (CRAW), Tesco (TSCO), Wm Morrison Supermarkets (MRW), J Sainsbury (SBRY), DFI Retail Group (DFIB), Ocado Group (OCDO), McBride (MCB), Kitwave Group (KITW), and PureCircle (PURE).
Cake Box vs. Its Competitors
Cake Box (LON:CBOX) and McColl's Retail Group (LON:MCLS) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and profitability.
Cake Box presently has a consensus target price of GBX 220, indicating a potential upside of 22.22%. Given Cake Box's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Cake Box is more favorable than McColl's Retail Group.
Cake Box has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McColl's Retail Group has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
45.2% of Cake Box shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.6% of McColl's Retail Group shares are held by institutional investors. 38.9% of Cake Box shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cake Box has a net margin of 12.31% compared to McColl's Retail Group's net margin of -0.65%. Cake Box's return on equity of 25.44% beat McColl's Retail Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Cake Box had 1 more articles in the media than McColl's Retail Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Cake Box and 0 mentions for McColl's Retail Group. Cake Box's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled McColl's Retail Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Cake Box has higher earnings, but lower revenue than McColl's Retail Group. McColl's Retail Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cake Box, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cake Box pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. McColl's Retail Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share. Cake Box pays out 78.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. McColl's Retail Group pays out -4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
McColl's Retail Group received 273 more outperform votes than Cake Box when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.06% of users gave McColl's Retail Group an outperform vote while only 53.19% of users gave Cake Box an outperform vote.
Summary
Cake Box beats McColl's Retail Group on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:CBOX) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
