Contrasting Pick n Pay Stores (PKPYY) and The Competition

Pick n Pay Stores (OTCMKTS:PKPYY) is one of 143 publicly-traded companies in the “Broadline Retail” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Pick n Pay Stores to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Profitability

This table compares Pick n Pay Stores and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pick n Pay Stores	N/A	N/A	N/A
Pick n Pay Stores Competitors	-3.41%	-37.84%	-2.63%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Pick n Pay Stores and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pick n Pay Stores	0	0	1	0	3.00
Pick n Pay Stores Competitors	1376	5350	10770	300	2.56

As a group, “Broadline Retail” companies have a potential upside of 14.17%. Given Pick n Pay Stores’ competitors higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Pick n Pay Stores has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Dividends

Pick n Pay Stores pays an annual dividend of $3.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 52.1%. Pick n Pay Stores pays out 52.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Broadline Retail” companies pay a dividend yield of 28.5% and pay out 11.5% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

44.1% of shares of all “Broadline Retail” companies are owned by institutional investors. 23.8% of shares of all “Broadline Retail” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Pick n Pay Stores and its competitors revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pick n Pay Stores	N/A	N/A	1.01
Pick n Pay Stores Competitors	$54.69 billion	$1.70 billion	-219.72

Pick n Pay Stores’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Pick n Pay Stores. Pick n Pay Stores is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Pick n Pay Stores beats its competitors on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

About Pick n Pay Stores

Pick n Pay Stores Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the retail of food, grocery, clothing, liquor, and general merchandise products in South Africa and Rest of Africa. It owns and franchises hypermarkets, supermarkets, clothing stores, liquor stores, superstores, build stores, punch stores, and express stores under the Pick n Pay and Boxer brands. The company also offers its products through an online shopping platform www.pnp.co.za. Pick n Pay Stores Limited was founded in 1967 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.