WBA vs. YUMC, EXPE, BBY, DKS, DRI, CASY, BURL, DPZ, WING, and TXRH
Should you be buying Walgreens Boots Alliance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Walgreens Boots Alliance include Yum China (YUMC), Expedia Group (EXPE), Best Buy (BBY), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Burlington Stores (BURL), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Wingstop (WING), and Texas Roadhouse (TXRH). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Yum China (NYSE:YUMC) and Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Yum China currently has a consensus price target of $54.65, indicating a potential upside of 46.51%. Walgreens Boots Alliance has a consensus price target of $24.36, indicating a potential upside of 41.36%. Given Walgreens Boots Alliance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Yum China is more favorable than Walgreens Boots Alliance.
In the previous week, Walgreens Boots Alliance had 14 more articles in the media than Yum China. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Walgreens Boots Alliance and 9 mentions for Yum China. Walgreens Boots Alliance's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Yum China's score of 0.37 indicating that Yum China is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Yum China pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Walgreens Boots Alliance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Yum China pays out 32.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Walgreens Boots Alliance pays out -14.3% 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. Yum China has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Walgreens Boots Alliance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Yum China has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Walgreens Boots Alliance. Walgreens Boots Alliance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yum China, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Walgreens Boots Alliance received 769 more outperform votes than Yum China when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.10% of users gave Walgreens Boots Alliance an outperform vote while only 64.19% of users gave Yum China an outperform vote.
Yum China has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Walgreens Boots Alliance has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Yum China has a net margin of 7.49% compared to Yum China's net margin of -4.18%. Yum China's return on equity of 12.11% beat Walgreens Boots Alliance's return on equity.
85.6% of Yum China shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yum China shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.4% of Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Yum China beats Walgreens Boots Alliance on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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