Village Super Market (VLGEA) Competitors

Village Super Market (NASDAQ:VLGEA) and Ingles Markets (NASDAQ:IMKTA) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in VLGEA or IMKTA?

39.0% of Village Super Market shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of Ingles Markets shares are held by institutional investors. 56.8% of Village Super Market shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.8% of Ingles Markets shares are held by 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.

Is VLGEA or IMKTA more profitable?

Village Super Market has a net margin of 2.29% compared to Ingles Markets' net margin of 1.45%. Village Super Market's return on equity of 12.15% beat Ingles Markets' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Village Super Market	2.29%	12.15%	5.50%
Ingles Markets	1.45%	5.09%	3.13%

Does the media refer more to VLGEA or IMKTA?

In the previous week, Village Super Market had 3 more articles in the media than Ingles Markets. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Village Super Market and 5 mentions for Ingles Markets. Ingles Markets' average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Village Super Market's score of 1.05 indicating that Ingles Markets is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Village Super Market	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Ingles Markets	3 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer VLGEA or IMKTA?

Ingles Markets received 173 more outperform votes than Village Super Market when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.67% of users gave Ingles Markets an outperform vote while only 58.93% of users gave Village Super Market an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Village Super Market	Outperform Votes 132 58.93%	Underperform Votes 92 41.07%
Ingles Markets	Outperform Votes 305 63.67%	Underperform Votes 174 36.33%

Which has more risk and volatility, VLGEA or IMKTA?

Village Super Market has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingles Markets has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is VLGEA or IMKTA a better dividend stock?

Village Super Market pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Ingles Markets pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Village Super Market pays out 27.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ingles Markets pays out 15.9% 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.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, VLGEA or IMKTA?

Ingles Markets has higher revenue and earnings than Village Super Market. Village Super Market is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ingles Markets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Village Super Market	$2.28B	0.24	$50.46M	$3.64	10.05
Ingles Markets	$5.45B	0.21	$105.54M	$4.14	14.87

Summary

Ingles Markets beats Village Super Market on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.