KR vs. CASY, IMKTA, NGVC, VLGEA, WMK, ACI, SFM, ASAI, TBBB, and GO
Should you be buying Kroger stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kroger include Casey's General Stores (CASY), Ingles Markets (IMKTA), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Weis Markets (WMK), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), Sendas Distribuidora (ASAI), BBB Foods (TBBB), and Grocery Outlet (GO).
Kroger (NYSE:KR) and Casey's General Stores (NASDAQ:CASY) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Kroger pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Casey's General Stores pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Kroger pays out 39.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Casey's General Stores pays out 13.7% 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.
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 has a net margin of 3.23% compared to Kroger's net margin of 1.44%. Kroger's return on equity of 31.44% beat Casey's General Stores' return on equity.
Kroger presently has a consensus target price of $55.17, indicating a potential upside of 9.96%. Casey's General Stores has a consensus target price of $361.22, indicating a potential downside of 5.22%. Given Kroger's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Kroger is more favorable than Casey's General Stores.
Kroger has a beta of 0.43, suggesting that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Casey's General Stores has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
80.9% of Kroger shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Kroger shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Casey's General Stores had 17 more articles in the media than Kroger. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Casey's General Stores and 17 mentions for Kroger. Casey's General Stores' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Kroger's score of 0.94 indicating that Casey's General Stores is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kroger received 471 more outperform votes than Casey's General Stores when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.13% of users gave Kroger an outperform vote while only 62.84% of users gave Casey's General Stores an outperform vote.
Summary
Casey's General Stores beats Kroger on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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