Casey's General Stores (CASY) Competitors

Casey's General Stores (NASDAQ:CASY) and Kroger (NYSE:KR) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Do analysts rate CASY or KR?

Casey's General Stores presently has a consensus target price of $424.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.54%. Kroger has a consensus target price of $67.19, suggesting a potential upside of 3.33%. Given Casey's General Stores' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Casey's General Stores is more favorable than Kroger.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Casey's General Stores	1 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.64
Kroger	0 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	9 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.65

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CASY or KR?

Kroger received 483 more outperform votes than Casey's General Stores when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.38% of users gave Kroger an outperform vote while only 63.05% of users gave Casey's General Stores an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Casey's General Stores	Outperform Votes 650 63.05%	Underperform Votes 381 36.95%
Kroger	Outperform Votes 1133 65.38%	Underperform Votes 600 34.62%

Which has more risk & volatility, CASY or KR?

Casey's General Stores has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kroger has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer CASY or KR?

In the previous week, Kroger had 27 more articles in the media than Casey's General Stores. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Kroger and 16 mentions for Casey's General Stores. Casey's General Stores' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Kroger's score of 0.57 indicating that Casey's General Stores is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Casey's General Stores	9 Very Positive mention(s)	4 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Kroger	21 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	12 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is CASY or KR more profitable?

Casey's General Stores has a net margin of 3.57% compared to Kroger's net margin of 1.85%. Kroger's return on equity of 27.73% beat Casey's General Stores' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Casey's General Stores	3.57%	17.17%	7.99%
Kroger	1.85%	27.73%	6.35%

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, CASY or KR?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Casey's General Stores	$14.97B	1.01	$501.97M	$14.35	28.26
Kroger	$149.88B	0.31	$2.16B	$3.78	17.20

Is CASY or KR a better dividend stock?

Casey's General Stores pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Kroger pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Casey's General Stores pays out 13.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kroger pays out 33.9% 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. Casey's General Stores has increased its dividend for 24 consecutive years and Kroger has increased its dividend for 19 consecutive years.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of CASY or KR?

85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.9% of Kroger shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Kroger shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Casey's General Stores and Kroger tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.