Sweetgreen (SG) Competitors

Sweetgreen (NYSE:SG) and CAVA Group (NYSE:CAVA) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.

Do analysts rate SG or CAVA?

Sweetgreen currently has a consensus target price of $39.80, indicating a potential upside of 18.77%. CAVA Group has a consensus target price of $143.71, indicating a potential upside of 1.65%. Given Sweetgreen's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Sweetgreen is more favorable than CAVA Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sweetgreen	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.64
CAVA Group	0 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.53

Which has more volatility and risk, SG or CAVA?

Sweetgreen has a beta of 2.32, indicating that its stock price is 132% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CAVA Group has a beta of 3.23, indicating that its stock price is 223% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has better valuation & earnings, SG or CAVA?

CAVA Group has higher revenue and earnings than Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CAVA Group, 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
Sweetgreen	$584.04M	6.55	-$113.38M	-$0.78	-42.96
CAVA Group	$845.22M	19.12	$13.28M	$0.46	307.35

Does the MarketBeat Community favor SG or CAVA?

CAVA Group received 16 more outperform votes than Sweetgreen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.50% of users gave CAVA Group an outperform vote while only 50.85% of users gave Sweetgreen an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Sweetgreen	Outperform Votes 30 50.85%	Underperform Votes 29 49.15%
CAVA Group	Outperform Votes 46 57.50%	Underperform Votes 34 42.50%

Is SG or CAVA more profitable?

CAVA Group has a net margin of 5.88% compared to Sweetgreen's net margin of -13.27%. CAVA Group's return on equity of 9.23% beat Sweetgreen's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sweetgreen	-13.27%	-18.82%	-10.39%
CAVA Group	5.88%	9.23%	5.33%

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in SG or CAVA?

95.8% of Sweetgreen shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.2% of CAVA Group shares are held by institutional investors. 21.5% of Sweetgreen shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.1% of CAVA Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Does the media favor SG or CAVA?

In the previous week, CAVA Group had 66 more articles in the media than Sweetgreen. MarketBeat recorded 74 mentions for CAVA Group and 8 mentions for Sweetgreen. CAVA Group's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Sweetgreen's score of 0.68 indicating that CAVA Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Sweetgreen	5 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
CAVA Group	24 Very Positive mention(s)	16 Positive mention(s)	14 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

CAVA Group beats Sweetgreen on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.