BJ vs. SKX, WYNN, SRAD, CHDN, RL, TTC, SN, SIRI, HAS, and BIRK
Should you be buying BJ's Wholesale Club stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BJ's Wholesale Club include Skechers U.S.A. (SKX), Wynn Resorts (WYNN), Sportradar Group (SRAD), Churchill Downs (CHDN), Ralph Lauren (RL), Toro (TTC), SharkNinja (SN), Sirius XM (SIRI), Hasbro (HAS), and Birkenstock (BIRK). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Skechers U.S.A. (NYSE:SKX) and BJ's Wholesale Club (NYSE:BJ) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
Skechers U.S.A. received 607 more outperform votes than BJ's Wholesale Club when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.58% of users gave Skechers U.S.A. an outperform vote while only 53.73% of users gave BJ's Wholesale Club an outperform vote.
Skechers U.S.A. has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BJ's Wholesale Club has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its stock price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Skechers U.S.A. has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BJ's Wholesale Club. Skechers U.S.A. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BJ's Wholesale Club, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Skechers U.S.A. has a net margin of 7.17% compared to Skechers U.S.A.'s net margin of 2.64%. Skechers U.S.A.'s return on equity of 40.84% beat BJ's Wholesale Club's return on equity.
Skechers U.S.A. currently has a consensus price target of $66.83, indicating a potential upside of 0.67%. BJ's Wholesale Club has a consensus price target of $74.40, indicating a potential downside of 3.43%. Given BJ's Wholesale Club's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Skechers U.S.A. is more favorable than BJ's Wholesale Club.
In the previous week, BJ's Wholesale Club had 1 more articles in the media than Skechers U.S.A.. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for BJ's Wholesale Club and 7 mentions for Skechers U.S.A.. BJ's Wholesale Club's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Skechers U.S.A.'s score of 0.27 indicating that Skechers U.S.A. is being referred to more favorably in the media.
80.0% of Skechers U.S.A. shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.6% of BJ's Wholesale Club shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.8% of Skechers U.S.A. shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of BJ's Wholesale Club shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Skechers U.S.A. beats BJ's Wholesale Club on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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