CASY vs. FIVE, PLAY, SFM, KR, WMK, IMKTA, NGVC, VLGEA, MUSA, and CMG
Should you be buying Casey's General Stores stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Casey's General Stores include Five Below (FIVE), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), Kroger (KR), Weis Markets (WMK), Ingles Markets (IMKTA), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Murphy USA (MUSA), and Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Casey's General Stores vs. Its Competitors
Five Below (NASDAQ:FIVE) and Casey's General Stores (NASDAQ:CASY) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and media sentiment.
Five Below presently has a consensus target price of $113.30, suggesting a potential downside of 14.73%. Casey's General Stores has a consensus target price of $453.00, suggesting a potential downside of 12.35%. Given Casey's General Stores' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Casey's General Stores is more favorable than Five Below.
Casey's General Stores has higher revenue and earnings than Five Below. Five Below 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.
In the previous week, Casey's General Stores had 6 more articles in the media than Five Below. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Casey's General Stores and 14 mentions for Five Below. Five Below's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Casey's General Stores' score of 0.92 indicating that Five Below is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Five Below has a net margin of 6.52% compared to Casey's General Stores' net margin of 3.43%. Five Below's return on equity of 17.00% beat Casey's General Stores' return on equity.
Five Below has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Casey's General Stores has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Five Below shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Casey's General Stores beats Five Below on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CASY) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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