GO vs. BBWI, BOOT, RUSHB, ASO, TBBB, PTRN, VSCO, CSAN, SVV, and NEGG
Should you be buying Grocery Outlet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grocery Outlet include Bath & Body Works (BBWI), Boot Barn (BOOT), Rush Enterprises (RUSHB), Academy Sports and Outdoors (ASO), BBB Foods (TBBB), Pattern Group (PTRN), Victoria's Secret & Co. (VSCO), Cosan (CSAN), Savers Value Village (SVV), and Newegg Commerce (NEGG). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.
Grocery Outlet vs. Its Competitors
Bath & Body Works (NYSE:BBWI) and Grocery Outlet (NASDAQ:GO) are both retail companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
Bath & Body Works has higher revenue and earnings than Grocery Outlet. Bath & Body Works is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grocery Outlet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bath & Body Works had 1 more articles in the media than Grocery Outlet. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Bath & Body Works and 7 mentions for Grocery Outlet. Grocery Outlet's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Bath & Body Works' score of 0.59 indicating that Grocery Outlet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bath & Body Works presently has a consensus price target of $38.15, suggesting a potential upside of 47.37%. Grocery Outlet has a consensus price target of $16.33, suggesting a potential upside of 8.10%. Given Bath & Body Works' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Bath & Body Works is more favorable than Grocery Outlet.
95.1% of Bath & Body Works shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Grocery Outlet shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Bath & Body Works shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Grocery Outlet 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.
Bath & Body Works has a net margin of 9.88% compared to Grocery Outlet's net margin of 0.18%. Grocery Outlet's return on equity of 6.34% beat Bath & Body Works' return on equity.
Bath & Body Works has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grocery Outlet has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bath & Body Works beats Grocery Outlet on 11 of the 16 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 NASDAQ 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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This page (NASDAQ:GO) was last updated on 10/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
