DFIB vs. CBOX, MCLS, CRAW, TSCO, SBRY, MRW, OCDO, HNT, MANX, and CLL
Should you be buying DFI Retail Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DFI Retail Group include Cake Box (CBOX), McColl's Retail Group (MCLS), Crawshaw Group (CRAW), Tesco (TSCO), J Sainsbury (SBRY), Wm Morrison Supermarkets (MRW), Ocado Group (OCDO), Huntsworth (HNT), Manx Telecom (MANX), and Cello Health plc (CLL.L) (CLL).
DFI Retail Group vs. Its Competitors
DFI Retail Group (LON:DFIB) and Cake Box (LON:CBOX) are both small-cap grocery stores industry companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.
DFI Retail Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Cake Box pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. DFI Retail Group pays out -36.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cake Box pays out 89.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. DFI Retail Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
DFI Retail Group has higher revenue and earnings than Cake Box. DFI 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 has a consensus price target of GBX 220, suggesting a potential upside of 10.66%. Given Cake Box's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cake Box is more favorable than DFI Retail Group.
12.0% of DFI Retail Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of Cake Box shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of DFI Retail Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.6% of Cake Box shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
DFI Retail Group has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cake Box has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, DFI Retail Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Cake Box'saverage media sentiment score.
Cake Box has a net margin of 12.31% compared to DFI Retail Group's net margin of 1.32%. Cake Box's return on equity of 25.44% beat DFI Retail Group's return on equity.
Summary
Cake Box beats DFI Retail Group on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:DFIB) was last updated on 9/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
