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Should you be buying J Sainsbury stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J Sainsbury include Wm Morrison Supermarkets (MRW), Ocado Group (OCDO), DFI Retail Group (DFIB), Cake Box (CBOX), McColl's Retail Group (MCLS), Crawshaw Group (CRAW), Tesco (TSCO), Imperial Brands (IMB), Associated British Foods (ABF), and Coca-Cola HBC (CCH).
J Sainsbury vs. Its Competitors
Wm Morrison Supermarkets (LON:MRW) and J Sainsbury (LON:SBRY) are both mid-cap grocery stores industry companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, J Sainsbury had 4 more articles in the media than Wm Morrison Supermarkets. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for J Sainsbury and 0 mentions for Wm Morrison Supermarkets. J Sainsbury's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Wm Morrison Supermarkets' score of 0.00 indicating that J Sainsbury is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
41.6% of J Sainsbury shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of J Sainsbury shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Wm Morrison Supermarkets pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.07 per share. J Sainsbury pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Wm Morrison Supermarkets pays out -6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. J Sainsbury pays out 128.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
J Sainsbury has a net margin of 0.42% compared to Wm Morrison Supermarkets' net margin of 0.00%. J Sainsbury's return on equity of 1.94% beat Wm Morrison Supermarkets' return on equity.
J Sainsbury has a consensus target price of GBX 305, indicating a potential downside of 4.03%. Given Wm Morrison Supermarkets' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Wm Morrison Supermarkets is more favorable than J Sainsbury.
J Sainsbury has higher revenue and earnings than Wm Morrison Supermarkets. Wm Morrison Supermarkets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J Sainsbury, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
J Sainsbury beats Wm Morrison Supermarkets on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:SBRY) was last updated on 9/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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