WSM vs. ULTA, DPZ, DRI, DKS, DECK, BBY, EXPE, QSR, CVNA, and WBA
Should you be buying Williams-Sonoma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Williams-Sonoma include Ulta Beauty (ULTA), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Darden Restaurants (DRI), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Deckers Outdoor (DECK), Best Buy (BBY), Expedia Group (EXPE), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Carvana (CVNA), and Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ:ULTA) and Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:WSM) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and earnings.
Ulta Beauty has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Williams-Sonoma has a beta of 1.72, indicating that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Williams-Sonoma has a net margin of 12.25% compared to Williams-Sonoma's net margin of 11.52%. Williams-Sonoma's return on equity of 61.64% beat Ulta Beauty's return on equity.
Ulta Beauty has higher revenue and earnings than Williams-Sonoma. Ulta Beauty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Williams-Sonoma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ulta Beauty received 569 more outperform votes than Williams-Sonoma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.43% of users gave Ulta Beauty an outperform vote while only 49.18% of users gave Williams-Sonoma an outperform vote.
Ulta Beauty presently has a consensus target price of $546.86, indicating a potential upside of 40.77%. Williams-Sonoma has a consensus target price of $256.19, indicating a potential downside of 15.98%. Given Williams-Sonoma's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ulta Beauty is more favorable than Williams-Sonoma.
90.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of Williams-Sonoma shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Ulta Beauty shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Williams-Sonoma shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Ulta Beauty had 8 more articles in the media than Williams-Sonoma. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Ulta Beauty and 14 mentions for Williams-Sonoma. Williams-Sonoma's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Ulta Beauty's score of 0.67 indicating that Ulta Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ulta Beauty beats Williams-Sonoma on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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