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DFI Retail Group (DFIB) Competitors

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GBX 9.17 0.00 (0.00%)
As of 07/24/2025

DFIB vs. SBRY, MRW, OCDO, CBOX, MCLS, CRAW, TSCO, GVC, ECM, and GFS

Should you be buying DFI Retail Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DFI Retail Group include J Sainsbury (SBRY), Wm Morrison Supermarkets (MRW), Ocado Group (OCDO), Cake Box (CBOX), McColl's Retail Group (MCLS), Crawshaw Group (CRAW), Tesco (TSCO), Entain PLC (GVC.L) (GVC), Electrocomponents (ECM), and G4S (GFS).

DFI Retail Group vs. Its Competitors

DFI Retail Group (LON:DFIB) and J Sainsbury (LON:SBRY) are both mid-cap grocery stores industry companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, earnings and risk.

J Sainsbury has a consensus target price of GBX 305, suggesting a potential downside of 0.33%. Given J Sainsbury's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe J Sainsbury is more favorable than DFI Retail Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
DFI Retail Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
J Sainsbury
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

DFI Retail Group has a beta of 0.51, indicating that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J Sainsbury has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

DFI Retail Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. J Sainsbury pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. DFI Retail Group pays out 47.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. J Sainsbury pays out 219.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

6.7% of DFI Retail Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.1% of J Sainsbury shares are held by institutional investors. 77.6% of DFI Retail Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of J Sainsbury shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

DFI Retail Group has higher revenue and earnings than J Sainsbury. DFI Retail Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J Sainsbury, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
DFI Retail Group£229.14B0.01£3.03B£0.3526.20
J Sainsbury£32.63B0.22£136.70M£5.9351.61

DFI Retail Group has a net margin of 1.32% compared to J Sainsbury's net margin of 0.42%. DFI Retail Group's return on equity of 12.38% beat J Sainsbury's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
DFI Retail Group1.32% 12.38% 1.41%
J Sainsbury 0.42%1.94%3.55%

In the previous week, DFI Retail Group and DFI Retail Group both had 1 articles in the media. DFI Retail Group's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat J Sainsbury's score of 0.00 indicating that DFI Retail Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
DFI Retail Group
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
J Sainsbury
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

J Sainsbury beats DFI Retail Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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DFIB vs. The Competition

MetricDFI Retail GroupGrocery Stores IndustryBusiness SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£3.14B£20.13B£18.94B£3.02B
Dividend Yield3.66%2.98%2.73%5.02%
P/E Ratio26.2019.7029.60160.65
Price / Sales0.0139.8454.61278,114.26
Price / Cash0.57148.1327.3927.97
Price / Book0.132.766.264.70
Net Income£3.03B£886.39M£197.98M£5.90B
7 Day PerformanceN/A2.32%1.50%0.40%
1 Month PerformanceN/A2.81%5.40%7.09%
1 Year PerformanceN/A13.59%26.46%73.21%

DFI Retail Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DFIB
DFI Retail Group
N/AGBX 9.17
flat
N/AN/A£3.14B£229.14B26.20213,000News Coverage
SBRY
J Sainsbury
1.0636 of 5 stars
GBX 306
+0.3%
GBX 305
-0.3%
+13.3%£7.06B£32.63B51.61152,000
MRW
Wm Morrison Supermarkets
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.93B£17.92B-238.67118,000
OCDO
Ocado Group
N/AGBX 345.69
+0.7%
N/A-18.8%£2.90B£3.07B-13.1618,869
CBOX
Cake Box
1.0865 of 5 stars
GBX 221.30
+2.9%
GBX 220
-0.6%
+23.6%£90.37M£38.64M19.40173Gap Up
MCLS
McColl's Retail Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£701K£1.23B-3.576,403
CRAW
Crawshaw Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£0.00N/A0.00N/A
TSCO
Tesco
1.2585 of 5 stars
GBX 428.50
+0.1%
GBX 430
+0.4%
+31.6%£28.59B£66.34B22.4249,000
GVC
Entain PLC (GVC.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.08B£3.40B-38.7913,345
ECM
Electrocomponents
N/AN/AN/AN/A£4.93B£2.30B26.647,406
GFS
G4S
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.83B£7.48B222.5514,600

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This page (LON:DFIB) was last updated on 7/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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