BBWI vs. PFGC, PAG, TXRH, WING, KMX, TPR, CASY, BURL, FBIN, and TPX
Should you be buying Bath & Body Works stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bath & Body Works include Performance Food Group (PFGC), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Wingstop (WING), CarMax (KMX), Tapestry (TPR), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Burlington Stores (BURL), Fortune Brands Innovations (FBIN), and Tempur Sealy International (TPX). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Performance Food Group (NYSE:PFGC) and Bath & Body Works (NYSE:BBWI) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.
Performance Food Group currently has a consensus target price of $81.14, suggesting a potential upside of 9.65%. Bath & Body Works has a consensus target price of $47.57, suggesting a potential downside of 5.16%. Given Bath & Body Works' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Performance Food Group is more favorable than Bath & Body Works.
Performance Food Group has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bath & Body Works has a beta of 1.89, meaning that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bath & Body Works had 12 more articles in the media than Performance Food Group. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Bath & Body Works and 2 mentions for Performance Food Group. Bath & Body Works' average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Performance Food Group's score of 1.04 indicating that Performance Food Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Performance Food Group received 354 more outperform votes than Bath & Body Works when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.09% of users gave Performance Food Group an outperform vote while only 37.27% of users gave Bath & Body Works an outperform vote.
96.9% of Performance Food Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of Bath & Body Works shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Performance Food Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Bath & Body Works shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Bath & Body Works has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Performance Food Group. Bath & Body Works is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Performance Food Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bath & Body Works has a net margin of 11.82% compared to Bath & Body Works' net margin of 0.72%. Bath & Body Works' return on equity of 16.22% beat Performance Food Group's return on equity.
Summary
Performance Food Group beats Bath & Body Works on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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