CVS vs. CMG, TGT, SBUX, MELI, TJX, ORLY, BKNG, AZO, ROST, and JD
Should you be buying CVS Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CVS Health include Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Target (TGT), Starbucks (SBUX), MercadoLibre (MELI), TJX Companies (TJX), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), Booking (BKNG), AutoZone (AZO), Ross Stores (ROST), and JD.com (JD). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) and CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking and earnings.
Chipotle Mexican Grill currently has a consensus price target of $3,137.12, suggesting a potential downside of 1.56%. CVS Health has a consensus price target of $89.44, suggesting a potential upside of 33.14%. Given Chipotle Mexican Grill's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CVS Health is more favorable than Chipotle Mexican Grill.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CVS Health has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Chipotle Mexican Grill had 56 more articles in the media than CVS Health. MarketBeat recorded 88 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill and 32 mentions for CVS Health. Chipotle Mexican Grill's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat CVS Health's score of 0.62 indicating that CVS Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has a net margin of 12.70% compared to Chipotle Mexican Grill's net margin of 2.33%. CVS Health's return on equity of 43.74% beat Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity.
91.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of CVS Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of CVS Health shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Chipotle Mexican Grill received 259 more outperform votes than CVS Health when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.16% of users gave CVS Health an outperform vote while only 59.88% of users gave Chipotle Mexican Grill an outperform vote.
CVS Health has higher revenue and earnings than Chipotle Mexican Grill. CVS Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chipotle Mexican Grill, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Chipotle Mexican Grill beats CVS Health on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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