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KR vs. CASY, WMK, IMKTA, NGVC, VLGEA, SFM, ACI, TBBB, GO, and ARKO

Should you be buying Kroger stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kroger include Casey's General Stores (CASY), Weis Markets (WMK), Ingles Markets (IMKTA), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), Albertsons Companies (ACI), BBB Foods (TBBB), Grocery Outlet (GO), and Arko (ARKO).

Kroger vs.

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

85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.9% of Kroger shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Kroger shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

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

Casey's General Stores currently has a consensus target price of $430.33, indicating a potential downside of 3.45%. Kroger has a consensus target price of $68.06, indicating a potential downside of 0.81%. Given Kroger's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kroger is more favorable than Casey's General Stores.

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

Casey's General Stores pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Kroger pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Casey's General Stores pays out 13.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kroger pays out 34.9% 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. Casey's General Stores has increased its dividend for 24 consecutive years and Kroger has increased its dividend for 19 consecutive years.

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

In the previous week, Kroger had 47 more articles in the media than Casey's General Stores. MarketBeat recorded 64 mentions for Kroger and 17 mentions for Casey's General Stores. Casey's General Stores' average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Kroger's score of 0.72 indicating that Casey's General Stores is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Casey's General Stores
11 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Kroger
30 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
20 Neutral mention(s)
6 Negative mention(s)
2 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
Casey's General Stores$15.55B1.06$501.97M$14.3531.06
Kroger$147.12B0.31$2.16B$3.6718.69

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
Casey's General Stores3.57% 17.17% 7.99%
Kroger 1.85%27.73%6.35%

Summary

Casey's General Stores beats Kroger on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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KR vs. The Competition

MetricKrogerGrocery stores IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$45.34B$13.82B$25.11B$19.29B
Dividend Yield1.89%2.66%169.81%3.84%
P/E Ratio18.1522.7924.2934.41
Price / Sales0.3113.984.0734.88
Price / Cash6.4166.9019.4117.52
Price / Book4.263.266.074.69
Net Income$2.16B$671.20M$784.05M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-0.26%0.47%-2.00%-2.39%
1 Month Performance-3.83%2.27%6.79%4.31%
1 Year Performance29.48%19.40%6.47%4.80%

Kroger Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KR
Kroger
3.8745 of 5 stars
$68.61
+1.0%
$68.06
-0.8%
+28.7%$45.34B$147.12B18.15420,000Trending News
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CASY
Casey's General Stores
3.8799 of 5 stars
$456.28
+0.0%
$430.33
-5.7%
+31.8%$16.94B$15.55B31.8042,500News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
WMK
Weis Markets
1.1642 of 5 stars
$75.99
-0.1%
N/A+12.4%$2.04B$4.81B21.3523,000Positive News
IMKTA
Ingles Markets
2.9783 of 5 stars
$62.13
-1.1%
N/A-18.3%$1.18B$5.41B15.0126,000Positive News
NGVC
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
0.9226 of 5 stars
$51.39
-0.3%
N/A+140.8%$1.18B$1.30B32.734,170Positive News
VLGEA
Village Super Market
3.7044 of 5 stars
$36.68
-1.2%
N/A+21.5%$540.92M$2.28B10.577,180Positive News
SFM
Sprouts Farmers Market
3.2944 of 5 stars
$168.92
+0.1%
$167.79
-0.7%
+102.5%$16.53B$8.07B44.9331,000Positive News
Insider Trade
ACI
Albertsons Companies
3.8919 of 5 stars
$21.84
-1.2%
$24.36
+11.5%
+8.0%$12.57B$80.39B12.27290,000News Coverage
Positive News
TBBB
BBB Foods
2.45 of 5 stars
$30.84
+2.0%
$33.67
+9.2%
+6.0%$3.52B$61.89B140.1821,924
GO
Grocery Outlet
3.5111 of 5 stars
$14.07
-1.1%
$15.62
+11.0%
-41.3%$1.38B$4.46B27.59950Analyst Revision
ARKO
Arko
3.3478 of 5 stars
$4.98
-3.7%
$7.35
+47.6%
-17.4%$571.11M$8.49B31.1312,200Gap Down

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This page (NYSE:KR) was last updated on 5/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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