DPZ vs. DRI, ULTA, WSM, DKS, BBY, EXPE, WBA, YUMC, DECK, and QSR
Should you be buying Domino's Pizza stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Domino's Pizza include Darden Restaurants (DRI), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), Williams-Sonoma (WSM), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Best Buy (BBY), Expedia Group (EXPE), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Yum China (YUMC), Deckers Outdoor (DECK), and Restaurant Brands International (QSR). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) and Domino's Pizza (NYSE:DPZ) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.
Darden Restaurants received 232 more outperform votes than Domino's Pizza when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.57% of users gave Darden Restaurants an outperform vote while only 62.23% of users gave Domino's Pizza an outperform vote.
Domino's Pizza has a net margin of 11.90% compared to Domino's Pizza's net margin of 9.24%. Domino's Pizza's return on equity of 49.94% beat Darden Restaurants' return on equity.
Darden Restaurants has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Domino's Pizza has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Darden Restaurants pays an annual dividend of $5.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Domino's Pizza pays an annual dividend of $6.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Darden Restaurants pays out 61.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Domino's Pizza pays out 39.4% 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. Darden Restaurants has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Domino's Pizza has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years.
Darden Restaurants has higher revenue and earnings than Domino's Pizza. Darden Restaurants is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Domino's Pizza, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.6% of Darden Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.6% of Domino's Pizza shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Darden Restaurants shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Domino's Pizza shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Darden Restaurants currently has a consensus price target of $178.67, suggesting a potential upside of 17.99%. Domino's Pizza has a consensus price target of $518.46, suggesting a potential upside of 1.04%. Given Domino's Pizza's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Darden Restaurants is more favorable than Domino's Pizza.
In the previous week, Domino's Pizza had 2 more articles in the media than Darden Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Domino's Pizza and 15 mentions for Darden Restaurants. Darden Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Domino's Pizza's score of 0.64 indicating that Domino's Pizza is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Domino's Pizza beats Darden Restaurants on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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