DFIB vs. MRW, SBRY, 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 Wm Morrison Supermarkets (MRW), J Sainsbury (SBRY), 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
Wm Morrison Supermarkets (LON:MRW) and DFI Retail Group (LON:DFIB) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
DFI Retail Group has a net margin of 1.32% compared to Wm Morrison Supermarkets' net margin of 0.00%. DFI Retail Group's return on equity of 12.38% beat Wm Morrison Supermarkets' return on equity.
12.0% of DFI Retail Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of DFI Retail Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Wm Morrison Supermarkets pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.07 per share. DFI Retail Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Wm Morrison Supermarkets pays out -6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DFI Retail Group pays out -36.4% 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. DFI Retail Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
DFI Retail Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Wm Morrison Supermarkets. DFI Retail Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wm Morrison Supermarkets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Wm Morrison Supermarkets' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled DFI Retail Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
DFI Retail Group beats Wm Morrison Supermarkets on 9 of the 10 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 9/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
