IMKTA vs. WMK, GO, NGVC, VLGEA, ODP, WINA, RVLV, CBRL, QRTEB, and KRUS
Should you be buying Ingles Markets stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ingles Markets include Weis Markets (WMK), Grocery Outlet (GO), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Village Super Market (VLGEA), ODP (ODP), Winmark (WINA), Revolve Group (RVLV), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Qurate Retail (QRTEB), and Kura Sushi USA (KRUS).
Ingles Markets (NASDAQ:IMKTA) and Weis Markets (NYSE:WMK) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Ingles Markets has a net margin of 3.00% compared to Weis Markets' net margin of 2.14%. Ingles Markets' return on equity of 11.97% beat Weis Markets' return on equity.
Ingles Markets received 99 more outperform votes than Weis Markets when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.69% of users gave Weis Markets an outperform vote while only 63.56% of users gave Ingles Markets an outperform vote.
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.
Ingles Markets pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Weis Markets pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Ingles Markets pays out 7.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Weis Markets pays out 36.3% 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.
62.5% of Ingles Markets shares are held by institutional investors. 23.1% of Ingles Markets shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.1% of Weis Markets shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ingles Markets has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Weis Markets has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ingles Markets had 1 more articles in the media than Weis Markets. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Ingles Markets and 3 mentions for Weis Markets. Weis Markets' average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Ingles Markets' score of 0.64 indicating that Weis Markets is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ingles Markets beats Weis Markets on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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