VIPS vs. CDW, CDAY, INFA, DAY, GWRE, LSCC, SKM, WWD, U, and PCTY
Should you be buying Vipshop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vipshop include CDW (CDW), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Informatica (INFA), Dayforce (DAY), Guidewire Software (GWRE), Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC), SK Telecom (SKM), Woodward (WWD), Unity Software (U), and Paylocity (PCTY). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
CDW (NASDAQ:CDW) and Vipshop (NYSE:VIPS) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
93.2% of CDW shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.8% of Vipshop shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of CDW shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.5% of Vipshop shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Vipshop has a net margin of 7.20% compared to Vipshop's net margin of 5.17%. Vipshop's return on equity of 73.93% beat CDW's return on equity.
CDW has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vipshop has a beta of 0.41, meaning that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Vipshop received 48 more outperform votes than CDW when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.52% of users gave CDW an outperform vote while only 67.88% of users gave Vipshop an outperform vote.
CDW pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Vipshop pays an annual dividend of $0.41 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. CDW pays out 30.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Vipshop pays out 20.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. CDW has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Vipshop is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
CDW presently has a consensus price target of $242.67, suggesting a potential upside of 0.17%. Vipshop has a consensus price target of $21.13, suggesting a potential upside of 34.35%. Given CDW's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Vipshop is more favorable than CDW.
Vipshop has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CDW. Vipshop is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CDW, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CDW had 2 more articles in the media than Vipshop. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for CDW and 6 mentions for Vipshop. CDW's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Vipshop's score of 0.63 indicating that Vipshop is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
CDW beats Vipshop on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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