OCDO vs. GRG, SBRY, MRW, ITV, ETO, GNK, JET, ISAT, SSPG, and GFS
Should you be buying Ocado Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ocado Group include Greggs (GRG), J Sainsbury (SBRY), Wm Morrison Supermarkets (MRW), ITV (ITV), Entertainment One (ETO), Greene King (GNK), Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET), Inmarsat (ISAT), SSP Group (SSPG), and G4S (GFS). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Ocado Group vs.
Ocado Group (LON:OCDO) and Greggs (LON:GRG) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
Ocado Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 783.50, indicating a potential upside of 114.59%. Greggs has a consensus target price of GBX 2,862.50, indicating a potential upside of 5.15%. Given Ocado Group's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Ocado Group is more favorable than Greggs.
Greggs has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
48.4% of Ocado Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Greggs shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.4% of Ocado Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of Greggs shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Ocado Group had 3 more articles in the media than Greggs. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Ocado Group and 1 mentions for Greggs. Ocado Group's average media sentiment score of 0.16 beat Greggs' score of 0.00 indicating that Ocado Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ocado Group has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greggs has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Greggs has a net margin of 7.95% compared to Ocado Group's net margin of -18.12%. Greggs' return on equity of 27.49% beat Ocado Group's return on equity.
Ocado Group received 152 more outperform votes than Greggs when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.06% of users gave Greggs an outperform vote while only 56.33% of users gave Ocado Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Greggs beats Ocado Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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