KR vs. CASY, WMK, IMKTA, NGVC, VLGEA, ACI, SFM, TBBB, ASAI, and GO
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), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), BBB Foods (TBBB), Sendas Distribuidora (ASAI), and Grocery Outlet (GO).
Casey's General Stores (NASDAQ:CASY) and Kroger (NYSE:KR) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and valuation.
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.
Casey's General Stores presently has a consensus price target of $401.22, suggesting a potential upside of 2.57%. Kroger has a consensus price target of $58.64, suggesting a potential upside of 8.31%. Given Casey's General Stores' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kroger is more favorable than Casey's General Stores.
Casey's General Stores pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Kroger pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Casey's General Stores pays out 14.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kroger pays out 43.7% 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. Casey's General Stores has increased its dividend for 24 consecutive years and Kroger has increased its dividend for 19 consecutive years.
Casey's General Stores has a net margin of 3.38% compared to Casey's General Stores' net margin of 1.43%. Casey's General Stores' return on equity of 29.89% beat Kroger's return on equity.
Kroger received 474 more outperform votes than Casey's General Stores when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.29% of users gave Kroger an outperform vote while only 63.03% of users gave Casey's General Stores an outperform vote.
Casey's General Stores has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kroger has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.9% of Kroger shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Casey's General Stores shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Kroger shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Kroger had 36 more articles in the media than Casey's General Stores. MarketBeat recorded 55 mentions for Kroger and 19 mentions for Casey's General Stores. Kroger's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Casey's General Stores' score of 0.22 indicating that Casey's General Stores is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Casey's General Stores beats Kroger on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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