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GBX 304.20 -2.60 (-0.85%)
As of 08/22/2025 12:05 PM Eastern

SBRY vs. MRW, DFIB, OCDO, CBOX, MCLS, CRAW, TSCO, IMB, CCH, and ABF

Should you be buying J Sainsbury stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J Sainsbury include Wm Morrison Supermarkets (MRW), DFI Retail Group (DFIB), Ocado Group (OCDO), Cake Box (CBOX), McColl's Retail Group (MCLS), Crawshaw Group (CRAW), Tesco (TSCO), Imperial Brands (IMB), Coca-Cola HBC (CCH), and Associated British Foods (ABF).

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 compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and dividends.

J Sainsbury has a consensus target price of GBX 305, suggesting a potential upside of 0.26%. Given J Sainsbury's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe J Sainsbury is more favorable than Wm Morrison Supermarkets.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Wm Morrison Supermarkets
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
J Sainsbury
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Wm Morrison Supermarkets pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.07 per share. J Sainsbury pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Wm Morrison Supermarkets pays out -6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. J Sainsbury pays out 219.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

In the previous week, J Sainsbury had 1 more articles in the media than Wm Morrison Supermarkets. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for J Sainsbury and 0 mentions for Wm Morrison Supermarkets. Wm Morrison Supermarkets' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled J Sainsbury'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Wm Morrison Supermarkets Neutral
J Sainsbury Neutral

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Wm Morrison SupermarketsN/A N/A N/A
J Sainsbury 0.42%1.94%3.55%

68.1% of J Sainsbury shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of J Sainsbury shares are owned by company 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.

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Wm Morrison Supermarkets£17.92B0.00N/A-£1.20N/A
J Sainsbury£32.63B0.22£136.70M£5.9351.31

Summary

J Sainsbury beats Wm Morrison Supermarkets on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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SBRY vs. The Competition

MetricJ SainsburyGrocery Stores IndustryDefensive SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£7.02B£13.41B£7.73B£3.22B
Dividend Yield4.96%2.98%3.17%5.04%
P/E Ratio51.3118.2613.50164.70
Price / Sales0.2237.791,488.28310,111.41
Price / Cash5.57148.13144.7427.93
Price / Book1.022.1110.095.91
Net Income£136.70M£886.39M£999.43M£5.89B
7 Day Performance2.63%-4.05%234.71%49.53%
1 Month Performance1.26%-5.65%264.70%56.40%
1 Year Performance5.77%2.02%221.47%136.21%

J Sainsbury Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SBRY
J Sainsbury
1.0576 of 5 stars
GBX 304.20
-0.8%
GBX 305
+0.3%
+7.4%£7.02B£32.63B51.31152,000
MRW
Wm Morrison Supermarkets
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.93B£17.92B-238.67118,000
DFIB
DFI Retail Group
N/AGBX 9.17
flat
N/AN/A£3.14B£229.14B26.20213,000
OCDO
Ocado Group
2.1559 of 5 stars
GBX 355.20
+0.5%
GBX 437
+23.0%
+0.6%£2.98B£3.07B-13.5218,869
CBOX
Cake Box
0.7919 of 5 stars
GBX 201
-2.0%
GBX 220
+9.5%
+15.3%£82.08M£38.64M17.62173News Coverage
MCLS
McColl's Retail Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£701K£1.23B-3.576,403
CRAW
Crawshaw Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£0.00N/A0.00N/A
TSCO
Tesco
1.252 of 5 stars
GBX 416.60
+0.2%
GBX 430
+3.2%
+23.0%£27.80B£66.34B21.8049,000News Coverage
IMB
Imperial Brands
1.4209 of 5 stars
GBX 3,069
-0.2%
N/A+46.5%£25.76B£17.31B13.0025,200Dividend Increase
CCH
Coca-Cola HBC
1.7931 of 5 stars
GBX 3,898.69
+0.2%
GBX 4,104.50
+5.3%
+43.4%£16.87B£12.23B26.9532,700
ABF
Associated British Foods
1.4538 of 5 stars
GBX 2,301
+1.2%
GBX 2,245
-2.4%
-6.7%£16.59B£19.45B11.72133,000

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This page (LON:SBRY) was last updated on 8/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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