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$447.50 +1.77 (+0.40%)
Closing price 05/27/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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CASY vs. KR, WMK, IMKTA, NGVC, VLGEA, CVNA, CPRT, PAG, KMX, and MUSA

Should you be buying Casey's General Stores stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Casey's General Stores include Kroger (KR), Weis Markets (WMK), Ingles Markets (IMKTA), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Carvana (CVNA), Copart (CPRT), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), CarMax (KMX), and Murphy USA (MUSA).

Casey's General Stores vs.

Kroger (NYSE:KR) and Casey's General Stores (NASDAQ:CASY) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.

80.9% of Kroger shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Kroger shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Kroger pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Casey's General Stores pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Kroger pays out 34.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Casey's General Stores pays out 13.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Kroger has increased its dividend for 19 consecutive years and Casey's General Stores has increased its dividend for 24 consecutive years.

Casey's General Stores has a net margin of 3.57% compared to Kroger's net margin of 1.85%. Kroger's return on equity of 27.73% beat Casey's General Stores' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Kroger1.85% 27.73% 6.35%
Casey's General Stores 3.57%17.17%7.99%

Kroger received 482 more outperform votes than Casey's General Stores when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.21% of users gave Kroger an outperform vote while only 63.08% of users gave Casey's General Stores an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
KrogerOutperform Votes
1138
65.21%
Underperform Votes
607
34.79%
Casey's General StoresOutperform Votes
656
63.08%
Underperform Votes
384
36.92%

Kroger has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Casey's General Stores has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Kroger had 40 more articles in the media than Casey's General Stores. MarketBeat recorded 56 mentions for Kroger and 16 mentions for Casey's General Stores. Casey's General Stores' average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Kroger's score of 0.74 indicating that Casey's General Stores is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Kroger
28 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
16 Neutral mention(s)
7 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Casey's General Stores
10 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Kroger has higher revenue and earnings than Casey's General Stores. Kroger is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Casey's General Stores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Kroger$147.12B0.30$2.16B$3.6718.47
Casey's General Stores$15.55B1.07$501.97M$14.3531.18

Kroger presently has a consensus target price of $68.06, indicating a potential upside of 0.41%. Casey's General Stores has a consensus target price of $430.33, indicating a potential downside of 3.84%. Given Kroger's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kroger is more favorable than Casey's General Stores.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Kroger
0 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.61
Casey's General Stores
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.85

Summary

Casey's General Stores beats Kroger on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CASY vs. The Competition

MetricCasey's General StoresAutomotive dealers & gasoline service stations IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$16.61B$8.51B$25.34B$8.50B
Dividend Yield0.45%1.44%169.89%4.16%
P/E Ratio31.1823.3224.7619.89
Price / Sales1.072.794.47138.33
Price / Cash18.2519.0319.4134.64
Price / Book5.494.836.194.56
Net Income$501.97M$310.64M$784.05M$248.06M
7 Day Performance-2.43%0.65%-0.09%0.37%
1 Month Performance0.04%4.46%8.79%9.64%
1 Year Performance30.41%4.99%5.91%9.00%

Casey's General Stores Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CASY
Casey's General Stores
3.8786 of 5 stars
$447.50
+0.4%
$430.33
-3.8%
+30.4%$16.61B$15.55B31.1842,500Positive News
KR
Kroger
4.0015 of 5 stars
$68.92
+0.1%
$67.39
-2.2%
+27.9%$45.55B$147.12B18.23420,000Trending News
WMK
Weis Markets
0.9203 of 5 stars
$76.07
flat
N/A+16.7%$2.05B$4.81B21.3723,000Positive News
IMKTA
Ingles Markets
2.9824 of 5 stars
$62.06
-1.2%
N/A-15.2%$1.19B$5.41B14.9926,000Positive News
NGVC
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
0.7713 of 5 stars
$51.06
-0.9%
N/A+129.3%$1.17B$1.30B32.524,170Positive News
VLGEA
Village Super Market
3.5783 of 5 stars
$36.81
-0.8%
N/A+23.1%$542.84M$2.28B10.617,180Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
CVNA
Carvana
3.4695 of 5 stars
$304.92
+1.7%
$269.18
-11.7%
+186.8%$65.30B$14.84B194.2216,600Gap Up
CPRT
Copart
2.6406 of 5 stars
$63.48
-0.6%
$58.00
-8.6%
-2.2%$61.33B$4.51B42.6011,700Positive News
Earnings Report
PAG
Penske Automotive Group
3.6728 of 5 stars
$167.14
+0.4%
$167.00
-0.1%
+7.4%$11.06B$30.61B12.1626,500Positive News
KMX
CarMax
4.5248 of 5 stars
$67.91
+1.0%
$87.73
+29.2%
-9.9%$10.37B$26.35B23.0232,600Positive News
MUSA
Murphy USA
4.7259 of 5 stars
$458.76
+0.3%
$526.29
+14.7%
-2.7%$9.07B$19.93B18.9615,100Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:CASY) was last updated on 5/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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