CTRP vs. SBUX, CMG, MELI, CVS, TGT, ORLY, ROST, AZO, JD, and YUM
Should you be buying Ctrip.Com International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ctrip.Com International include Starbucks (SBUX), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), MercadoLibre (MELI), CVS Health (CVS), Target (TGT), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), Ross Stores (ROST), AutoZone (AZO), JD.com (JD), and Yum! Brands (YUM). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Ctrip.Com International (NASDAQ:CTRP) and Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) 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 earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
Ctrip.Com International has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Starbucks has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Starbucks had 29 more articles in the media than Ctrip.Com International. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Starbucks and 0 mentions for Ctrip.Com International. Starbucks' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Ctrip.Com International's score of 0.00 indicating that Starbucks is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Starbucks has a consensus target price of $96.43, suggesting a potential upside of 18.43%. Given Starbucks' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Starbucks is more favorable than Ctrip.Com International.
Starbucks received 1289 more outperform votes than Ctrip.Com International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.72% of users gave Starbucks an outperform vote while only 71.42% of users gave Ctrip.Com International an outperform vote.
61.4% of Ctrip.Com International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.3% of Starbucks shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.0% of Ctrip.Com International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Starbucks shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Starbucks has higher revenue and earnings than Ctrip.Com International. Starbucks is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ctrip.Com International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Starbucks has a net margin of 11.38% compared to Ctrip.Com International's net margin of 5.79%. Ctrip.Com International's return on equity of 3.91% beat Starbucks' return on equity.
Summary
Starbucks beats Ctrip.Com International on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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