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Should you be buying J Sainsbury stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J Sainsbury include Wm Morrison Supermarkets (MRW), Ocado Group (OCDO), DFI Retail Group (DFIB), Cake Box (CBOX), McColl's Retail Group (MCLS), Crawshaw Group (CRAW), Tesco (TSCO), Imperial Brands (IMB), Associated British Foods (ABF), and Bunzl (BNZL).
J Sainsbury vs.
J Sainsbury (LON:SBRY) and Wm Morrison Supermarkets (LON:MRW) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
J Sainsbury has a net margin of 0.42% compared to Wm Morrison Supermarkets' net margin of 0.00%. J Sainsbury's return on equity of 1.94% beat Wm Morrison Supermarkets' return on equity.
68.1% of J Sainsbury shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of J Sainsbury 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.
J Sainsbury has higher revenue and earnings than Wm Morrison Supermarkets. Wm Morrison Supermarkets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J Sainsbury, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, J Sainsbury had 1 more articles in the media than Wm Morrison Supermarkets. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for J Sainsbury and 0 mentions for Wm Morrison Supermarkets. Wm Morrison Supermarkets' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat J Sainsbury's score of -0.59 indicating that Wm Morrison Supermarkets is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
J Sainsbury received 341 more outperform votes than Wm Morrison Supermarkets when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.38% of users gave J Sainsbury an outperform vote while only 43.23% of users gave Wm Morrison Supermarkets an outperform vote.
J Sainsbury currently has a consensus target price of GBX 302.50, indicating a potential upside of 17.43%. Given J Sainsbury's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe J Sainsbury is more favorable than Wm Morrison Supermarkets.
J Sainsbury pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Wm Morrison Supermarkets pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.07 per share. 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. Wm Morrison Supermarkets pays out -6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
J Sainsbury beats Wm Morrison Supermarkets on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SBRY) was last updated on 1/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
