SBRY vs. OCDO, GRG, TSCO, BME, CCH, TATE, BNZL, CWK, BVIC, and IMB
Should you be buying J Sainsbury stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J Sainsbury include Ocado Group (OCDO), Greggs (GRG), Tesco (TSCO), B&M European Value Retail (BME), Coca-Cola HBC (CCH), Tate & Lyle (TATE), Bunzl (BNZL), Cranswick (CWK), Britvic (BVIC), and Imperial Brands (IMB). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
J Sainsbury (LON:SBRY) and Ocado Group (LON:OCDO) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
67.9% of J Sainsbury shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.4% of Ocado Group shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of J Sainsbury shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.2% of Ocado Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
J Sainsbury presently has a consensus target price of GBX 281.67, indicating a potential upside of 8.25%. Ocado Group has a consensus target price of GBX 526.67, indicating a potential upside of 43.19%. Given Ocado Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ocado Group is more favorable than J Sainsbury.
J Sainsbury has a net margin of 0.24% compared to Ocado Group's net margin of -11.11%. J Sainsbury's return on equity of 1.02% beat Ocado Group's return on equity.
J Sainsbury has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ocado Group has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, J Sainsbury had 11 more articles in the media than Ocado Group. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for J Sainsbury and 5 mentions for Ocado Group. Ocado Group's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat J Sainsbury's score of 0.70 indicating that Ocado Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
J Sainsbury has higher revenue and earnings than Ocado Group. Ocado Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J Sainsbury, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
J Sainsbury received 455 more outperform votes than Ocado Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.01% of users gave Ocado Group an outperform vote while only 51.51% of users gave J Sainsbury an outperform vote.
Summary
J Sainsbury beats Ocado Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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