CASY vs. KR, WMK, IMKTA, NGVC, VLGEA, CVNA, CPRT, PAG, KMX, and LAD
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 Lithia Motors (LAD).
Casey's General Stores vs. Its Competitors
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 companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, community ranking and media sentiment.
Kroger currently has a consensus price target of $68.11, indicating a potential downside of 4.54%. Casey's General Stores has a consensus price target of $453.00, indicating a potential downside of 9.56%. Given Kroger's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Kroger is more favorable than Casey's General Stores.
80.9% of Kroger shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Kroger shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kroger has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Casey's General Stores has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kroger had 60 more articles in the media than Casey's General Stores. MarketBeat recorded 90 mentions for Kroger and 30 mentions for Casey's General Stores. Casey's General Stores' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Kroger's score of 0.30 indicating that Casey's General Stores is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Casey's General Stores has a net margin of 3.43% compared to Kroger's net margin of 1.81%. Kroger's return on equity of 28.17% beat Casey's General Stores' return on equity.
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.
Kroger received 481 more outperform votes than Casey's General Stores when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.27% of users gave Kroger an outperform vote while only 63.04% of users gave Casey's General Stores an outperform vote.
Kroger pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. 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 13.7% 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.
Summary
Casey's General Stores beats Kroger on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:CASY) was last updated on 6/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
