DKS vs. BBY, WBA, EXPE, YUMC, DRI, DPZ, GME, ULTA, WSM, and BURL
Should you be buying DICK'S Sporting Goods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DICK'S Sporting Goods include Best Buy (BBY), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Expedia Group (EXPE), Yum China (YUMC), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), GameStop (GME), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), Williams-Sonoma (WSM), and Burlington Stores (BURL). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
DICK'S Sporting Goods (NYSE:DKS) and Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability and dividends.
DICK'S Sporting Goods pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Best Buy pays an annual dividend of $3.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. DICK'S Sporting Goods pays out 36.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Best Buy pays out 66.1% 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.
In the previous week, DICK'S Sporting Goods had 3 more articles in the media than Best Buy. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for DICK'S Sporting Goods and 8 mentions for Best Buy. Best Buy's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat DICK'S Sporting Goods' score of 0.57 indicating that Best Buy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Best Buy has higher revenue and earnings than DICK'S Sporting Goods. Best Buy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DICK'S Sporting Goods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DICK'S Sporting Goods has a net margin of 8.06% compared to Best Buy's net margin of 2.86%. Best Buy's return on equity of 48.45% beat DICK'S Sporting Goods' return on equity.
DICK'S Sporting Goods has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Best Buy has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
89.8% of DICK'S Sporting Goods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Best Buy shares are held by institutional investors. 32.0% of DICK'S Sporting Goods shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Best Buy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
DICK'S Sporting Goods currently has a consensus target price of $208.27, indicating a potential upside of 7.48%. Best Buy has a consensus target price of $84.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.62%. Given Best Buy's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Best Buy is more favorable than DICK'S Sporting Goods.
Best Buy received 129 more outperform votes than DICK'S Sporting Goods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.97% of users gave Best Buy an outperform vote while only 70.45% of users gave DICK'S Sporting Goods an outperform vote.
Summary
DICK'S Sporting Goods beats Best Buy on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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