ROST vs. URBN, JWN, LE, TJX, JD, CPNG, KR, YUM, FAST, and AZO
Should you be buying Ross Stores stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ross Stores include Urban Outfitters (URBN), Nordstrom (JWN), Lands' End (LE), TJX Companies (TJX), JD.com (JD), Coupang (CPNG), Kroger (KR), Yum! Brands (YUM), Fastenal (FAST), and AutoZone (AZO).
Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) and Ross Stores (NASDAQ:ROST) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Urban Outfitters presently has a consensus price target of $39.67, suggesting a potential downside of 1.33%. Ross Stores has a consensus price target of $155.21, suggesting a potential upside of 19.07%. Given Urban Outfitters' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ross Stores is more favorable than Urban Outfitters.
Ross Stores has a net margin of 9.20% compared to Ross Stores' net margin of 5.58%. Urban Outfitters' return on equity of 41.15% beat Ross Stores' return on equity.
Ross Stores has higher revenue and earnings than Urban Outfitters. Urban Outfitters is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ross Stores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Urban Outfitters has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ross Stores has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Urban Outfitters received 313 more outperform votes than Ross Stores when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.09% of users gave Ross Stores an outperform vote while only 59.90% of users gave Urban Outfitters an outperform vote.
77.6% of Urban Outfitters shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Ross Stores shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.8% of Urban Outfitters shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Ross Stores shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Ross Stores had 10 more articles in the media than Urban Outfitters. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Ross Stores and 4 mentions for Urban Outfitters. Ross Stores' average media sentiment score of 1.61 beat Urban Outfitters' score of 1.01 indicating that Urban Outfitters is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ross Stores beats Urban Outfitters on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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