BME vs. SBRY, OCDO, GRG, TATE, CWK, BVIC, PFD, FEVR, CCH, and BNZL Should you be buying B&M European Value Retail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B&M European Value Retail include J Sainsbury (SBRY), Ocado Group (OCDO), Greggs (GRG), Tate & Lyle (TATE), Cranswick (CWK), Britvic (BVIC), Premier Foods (PFD), Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), Coca-Cola HBC (CCH), and Bunzl (BNZL). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
B&M European Value Retail (LON:BME ) and J Sainsbury (LON:SBRY ) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
B&M European Value Retail has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J Sainsbury has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
B&M European Value Retail pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. J Sainsbury pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. B&M European Value Retail pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. J Sainsbury pays out 21,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, J Sainsbury had 2 more articles in the media than B&M European Value Retail. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for J Sainsbury and 3 mentions for B&M European Value Retail. B&M European Value Retail's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat J Sainsbury's score of 0.64 indicating that B&M European Value Retail is being referred to more favorably in the media.
62.0% of B&M European Value Retail shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.1% of J Sainsbury shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of B&M European Value Retail shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of J Sainsbury shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
B&M European Value Retail currently has a consensus target price of GBX 588.29, suggesting a potential upside of 7.43%. J Sainsbury has a consensus target price of GBX 285.67, suggesting a potential downside of 0.03%. Given B&M European Value Retail's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe B&M European Value Retail is more favorable than J Sainsbury.
J Sainsbury received 169 more outperform votes than B&M European Value Retail when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 81.28% of users gave B&M European Value Retail an outperform vote while only 51.48% of users gave J Sainsbury an outperform vote.
B&M European Value Retail has higher earnings, but lower revenue than J Sainsbury. B&M European Value Retail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J Sainsbury, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
B&M European Value Retail has a net margin of 6.80% compared to J Sainsbury's net margin of 0.42%. B&M European Value Retail's return on equity of 43.42% beat J Sainsbury's return on equity.
Summary B&M European Value Retail beats J Sainsbury on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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