TSCO vs. FAST, DLTR, EBAY, DG, QSR, BLDR, DECK, ULTA, DRI, and WSM
Should you be buying Tractor Supply stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tractor Supply include Fastenal (FAST), Dollar Tree (DLTR), eBay (EBAY), Dollar General (DG), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Deckers Outdoor (DECK), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), Darden Restaurants (DRI), and Williams-Sonoma (WSM). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Tractor Supply (NASDAQ:TSCO) and Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Tractor Supply has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fastenal has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tractor Supply pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Fastenal pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Tractor Supply pays out 42.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fastenal pays out 77.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Tractor Supply had 61 more articles in the media than Fastenal. MarketBeat recorded 76 mentions for Tractor Supply and 15 mentions for Fastenal. Fastenal's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Tractor Supply's score of 0.46 indicating that Fastenal is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
98.7% of Tractor Supply shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.4% of Fastenal shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Tractor Supply shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Fastenal shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tractor Supply currently has a consensus target price of $248.17, suggesting a potential downside of 9.40%. Fastenal has a consensus target price of $67.67, suggesting a potential downside of 0.74%. Given Fastenal's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fastenal is more favorable than Tractor Supply.
Tractor Supply received 589 more outperform votes than Fastenal when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.83% of users gave Tractor Supply an outperform vote while only 54.57% of users gave Fastenal an outperform vote.
Fastenal has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tractor Supply. Tractor Supply is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fastenal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fastenal has a net margin of 15.68% compared to Tractor Supply's net margin of 7.66%. Tractor Supply's return on equity of 52.99% beat Fastenal's return on equity.
Summary
Tractor Supply and Fastenal tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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