BBWI vs. PFGC, KMX, PAG, TXRH, WING, BURL, FBIN, TPX, CASY, and TPR
Should you be buying Bath & Body Works stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bath & Body Works include Performance Food Group (PFGC), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Wingstop (WING), Burlington Stores (BURL), Fortune Brands Innovations (FBIN), Tempur Sealy International (TPX), Casey's General Stores (CASY), and Tapestry (TPR). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Performance Food Group (NYSE:PFGC) and Bath & Body Works (NYSE:BBWI) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Performance Food Group has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bath & Body Works has a beta of 1.89, suggesting that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Performance Food Group had 12 more articles in the media than Bath & Body Works. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Performance Food Group and 11 mentions for Bath & Body Works. Performance Food Group's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Bath & Body Works' score of 0.44 indicating that Bath & Body Works is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bath & Body Works has a net margin of 11.82% compared to Bath & Body Works' net margin of 0.72%. Bath & Body Works' return on equity of 16.22% beat Performance Food Group's return on equity.
96.9% of Performance Food Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of Bath & Body Works shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Performance Food Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Bath & Body Works shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Performance Food Group currently has a consensus price target of $81.14, suggesting a potential upside of 16.31%. Bath & Body Works has a consensus price target of $46.73, suggesting a potential downside of 2.27%. Given Bath & Body Works' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Performance Food Group is more favorable than Bath & Body Works.
Bath & Body Works has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Performance Food Group. Bath & Body Works is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Performance Food Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Performance Food Group received 354 more outperform votes than Bath & Body Works when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.09% of users gave Performance Food Group an outperform vote while only 37.50% of users gave Bath & Body Works an outperform vote.
Summary
Performance Food Group beats Bath & Body Works on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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