Ingles Markets (IMKTA) Competitors

Weis Markets (NYSE:WMK) and Ingles Markets (NASDAQ:IMKTA) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.

Is WMK or IMKTA a better dividend stock?

Weis Markets pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Ingles Markets pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Weis Markets pays out 33.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ingles Markets pays out 15.9% 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.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of WMK or IMKTA?

62.5% of Ingles Markets shares are held by institutional investors. 27.1% of Weis Markets shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.8% of Ingles Markets shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has better earnings & valuation, WMK or IMKTA?

Ingles Markets has higher revenue and earnings than Weis Markets. Ingles Markets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Weis Markets, 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
Weis Markets	$4.79B	0.41	$103.83M	$4.09	17.74
Ingles Markets	$5.45B	0.21	$105.54M	$4.14	14.64

Is WMK or IMKTA more profitable?

Weis Markets has a net margin of 2.01% compared to Ingles Markets' net margin of 1.45%. Weis Markets' return on equity of 6.85% beat Ingles Markets' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Weis Markets	2.01%	6.85%	4.67%
Ingles Markets	1.45%	5.09%	3.13%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer WMK or IMKTA?

Ingles Markets received 102 more outperform votes than Weis Markets when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.80% of users gave Weis Markets an outperform vote while only 63.60% of users gave Ingles Markets an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Weis Markets	Outperform Votes 202 65.80%	Underperform Votes 105 34.20%
Ingles Markets	Outperform Votes 304 63.60%	Underperform Votes 174 36.40%

Does the media favor WMK or IMKTA?

In the previous week, Weis Markets had 7 more articles in the media than Ingles Markets. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Weis Markets and 3 mentions for Ingles Markets. Ingles Markets' average media sentiment score of 1.71 beat Weis Markets' score of 0.92 indicating that Ingles Markets is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Weis Markets	5 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Ingles Markets	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Which has more volatility and risk, WMK or IMKTA?

Weis Markets has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingles Markets has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Weis Markets beats Ingles Markets on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.