IMKTA vs. VLGEA, NGVC, RVLV, FWRG, CBRL, WINA, KRUS, QRTEB, SBH, and JACK
Should you be buying Ingles Markets stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ingles Markets include Village Super Market (VLGEA), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Revolve Group (RVLV), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Winmark (WINA), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Qurate Retail (QRTEB), Sally Beauty (SBH), and Jack in the Box (JACK). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Village Super Market (NASDAQ:VLGEA) and Ingles Markets (NASDAQ:IMKTA) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
Village Super Market has a beta of 0.32, suggesting that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingles Markets has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Village Super Market pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Ingles Markets pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Village Super Market pays out 28.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ingles Markets pays out 6.8% 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.
Ingles Markets has higher revenue and earnings than Village Super Market. Ingles Markets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Village Super Market, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ingles Markets received 168 more outperform votes than Village Super Market when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.56% of users gave Ingles Markets an outperform vote while only 58.93% of users gave Village Super Market an outperform vote.
Ingles Markets has a net margin of 3.14% compared to Ingles Markets' net margin of 2.39%. Village Super Market's return on equity of 12.92% beat Ingles Markets' return on equity.
39.0% of Village Super Market shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of Ingles Markets shares are owned by institutional investors. 64.3% of Village Super Market shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.1% of Ingles Markets shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Ingles Markets had 2 more articles in the media than Village Super Market. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ingles Markets and 1 mentions for Village Super Market. Village Super Market's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Ingles Markets' score of 0.00 indicating that Ingles Markets is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ingles Markets beats Village Super Market on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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