GRG vs. GNK, MAB, SSPG, DOM, EIG, JDW, RTN, YNGA, LGRS, and DPEU
Should you be buying Greggs stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Greggs include Greene King (GNK), Mitchells & Butlers (MAB), SSP Group (SSPG), Domino's Pizza Group (DOM), Ei Group plc (EIG.L) (EIG), J D Wetherspoon (JDW), The Restaurant Group (RTN), Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (YNGA), Loungers (LGRS), and DP Eurasia (DPEU). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Greggs (LON:GRG) and Greene King (LON:GNK) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and dividends.
Greggs currently has a consensus price target of GBX 3,375, suggesting a potential upside of 14.80%.
In the previous week, Greggs and Greggs both had 2 articles in the media. Greene King's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Greggs' score of 0.05 indicating that Greene King is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
59.9% of Greggs shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Greggs 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.
Greene King received 248 more outperform votes than Greggs when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.37% of users gave Greene King an outperform vote while only 64.14% of users gave Greggs an outperform vote.
Greggs has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Greene King. Greene King is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greggs, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Greggs pays an annual dividend of GBX 62 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Greene King pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.33 per share. Greggs pays out 4,460.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Greene King pays out 0.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Greggs has a net margin of 7.87% compared to Greene King's net margin of 0.00%. Greggs' return on equity of 29.17% beat Greene King's return on equity.
Summary
Greggs beats Greene King on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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