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Weis Markets (WMK) Competitors

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$75.29 -0.73 (-0.96%)
As of 05/20/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

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

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

Weis Markets vs.

Weis Markets (NYSE:WMK) and Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NYSE:NGVC) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, community ranking and profitability.

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage has a net margin of 2.84% compared to Weis Markets' net margin of 2.01%. Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage's return on equity of 21.12% beat Weis Markets' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Weis Markets2.01% 6.85% 4.67%
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage 2.84%21.12%5.52%

32.0% of Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage shares are held by institutional investors. 27.0% of Weis Markets shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 58.8% of Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage received 189 more outperform votes than Weis Markets when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.91% of users gave Weis Markets an outperform vote while only 59.57% of users gave Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Weis MarketsOutperform Votes
203
65.91%
Underperform Votes
105
34.09%
Natural Grocers by Vitamin CottageOutperform Votes
392
59.57%
Underperform Votes
266
40.43%

Weis Markets pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Weis Markets pays out 34.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage pays out 27.0% 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. Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

Weis Markets has higher revenue and earnings than Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage. Weis Markets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Weis Markets$4.81B0.42$103.83M$3.9918.87
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage$1.30B0.91$33.94M$1.7829.06

Weis Markets has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage had 3 more articles in the media than Weis Markets. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage and 6 mentions for Weis Markets. Weis Markets' average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage's score of 1.03 indicating that Weis Markets is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Weis Markets
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage beats Weis Markets on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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WMK vs. The Competition

MetricWeis MarketsGrocery stores IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$2.03B$14.41B$25.21B$19.70B
Dividend Yield1.77%2.68%169.73%3.84%
P/E Ratio21.1522.3824.7735.13
Price / Sales0.4214.093.9834.12
Price / Cash8.3866.9019.4117.51
Price / BookN/A3.306.254.78
Net Income$103.83M$671.20M$781.36M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-1.00%1.66%0.77%1.62%
1 Month Performance-9.16%4.32%13.88%13.00%
1 Year Performance13.00%19.62%8.94%5.59%

Weis Markets Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WMK
Weis Markets
1.1997 of 5 stars
$75.29
-1.0%
N/A+14.5%$2.03B$4.81B21.1523,000
NGVC
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
1.0029 of 5 stars
$53.51
-10.4%
N/A+146.3%$1.23B$1.27B34.084,170High Trading Volume
IMKTA
Ingles Markets
3.219 of 5 stars
$62.81
+2.1%
N/A-16.1%$1.19B$5.41B15.1726,000Gap Up
VLGEA
Village Super Market
3.7715 of 5 stars
$36.61
+1.0%
N/A+23.5%$539.89M$2.28B10.557,180Positive News
KR
Kroger
3.9362 of 5 stars
$68.91
-4.1%
$67.06
-2.7%
+28.9%$45.54B$147.12B18.23420,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
CASY
Casey's General Stores
3.9545 of 5 stars
$436.80
-2.6%
$430.33
-1.5%
+37.1%$16.21B$15.55B30.4442,500Positive News
High Trading Volume
TBBB
BBB Foods
1.6888 of 5 stars
$27.77
-0.5%
$33.67
+21.3%
+24.4%$3.17B$57.44B126.2021,924
GO
Grocery Outlet
3.7156 of 5 stars
$14.18
-1.5%
$15.62
+10.1%
-36.4%$1.39B$4.46B27.80950High Trading Volume
ARKO
Arko
3.4019 of 5 stars
$5.18
+8.6%
$7.35
+41.9%
-12.0%$594.04M$8.49B32.3812,200Gap Up
MSS
Maison Solutions
N/A$0.94
-0.7%
N/A-20.0%$18.51M$111.74M-5.88175
SFM
Sprouts Farmers Market
3.3434 of 5 stars
$156.99
-3.0%
$167.79
+6.9%
+112.2%$15.36B$8.07B41.7531,000Positive News
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