GRG vs. OCDO, SBRY, TATE, CWK, BVIC, PFD, FEVR, HFG, BME, and CCH
Should you be buying Greggs stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Greggs include Ocado Group (OCDO), J Sainsbury (SBRY), Tate & Lyle (TATE), Cranswick (CWK), Britvic (BVIC), Premier Foods (PFD), Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), Hilton Food Group (HFG), B&M European Value Retail (BME), and Coca-Cola HBC (CCH). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Greggs (LON:GRG) and Ocado Group (LON:OCDO) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
In the previous week, Ocado Group had 1 more articles in the media than Greggs. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Ocado Group and 4 mentions for Greggs. Ocado Group's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Greggs' score of -0.04 indicating that Ocado Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ocado Group received 149 more outperform votes than Greggs when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.13% of users gave Greggs an outperform vote while only 56.01% of users gave Ocado Group an outperform vote.
Greggs presently has a consensus price target of GBX 3,035, suggesting a potential upside of 12.41%. Ocado Group has a consensus price target of GBX 515, suggesting a potential upside of 45.85%. Given Ocado Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ocado Group is more favorable than Greggs.
64.8% of Greggs shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.4% of Ocado Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.9% of Greggs shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.2% of Ocado Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Greggs has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ocado Group has a beta of 1.71, suggesting that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Greggs has a net margin of 7.87% compared to Ocado Group's net margin of -11.11%. Greggs' return on equity of 29.17% beat Ocado Group's return on equity.
Greggs has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ocado Group. Ocado Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greggs, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Greggs beats Ocado Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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