URBN vs. JWN, LE, PLCE, GPS, ANF, AEO, FL, BKE, GES, and CAL
Should you be buying Urban Outfitters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Urban Outfitters include Nordstrom (JWN), Lands' End (LE), Children's Place (PLCE), GAP (GPS), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Foot Locker (FL), Buckle (BKE), Guess? (GES), and Caleres (CAL).
Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) and Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
Urban Outfitters has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Nordstrom. Nordstrom is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Urban Outfitters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Urban Outfitters received 274 more outperform votes than Nordstrom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.80% of users gave Urban Outfitters an outperform vote while only 58.57% of users gave Nordstrom an outperform vote.
Nordstrom has a beta of 2.58, suggesting that its stock price is 158% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urban Outfitters has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Nordstrom currently has a consensus price target of $17.42, suggesting a potential downside of 18.65%. Urban Outfitters has a consensus price target of $43.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.07%. Given Nordstrom's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Urban Outfitters is more favorable than Nordstrom.
88.7% of Nordstrom shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.6% of Urban Outfitters shares are held by institutional investors. 5.8% of Nordstrom shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.8% of Urban Outfitters shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Urban Outfitters has a net margin of 5.66% compared to Urban Outfitters' net margin of -1.35%. Nordstrom's return on equity of 15.36% beat Urban Outfitters' return on equity.
In the previous week, Nordstrom had 17 more articles in the media than Urban Outfitters. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Nordstrom and 5 mentions for Urban Outfitters. Nordstrom's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Urban Outfitters' score of 0.13 indicating that Urban Outfitters is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Urban Outfitters beats Nordstrom on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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