AMZN vs. CPNG, CDW, W, CHWY, NSIT, CNXN, RVLV, JMIA, HEPS, and DDL
Should you be buying Amazon.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amazon.com include Coupang (CPNG), CDW (CDW), Wayfair (W), Chewy (CHWY), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), PC Connection (CNXN), Revolve Group (RVLV), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), and Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL). These companies are all part of the "catalog & mail - order houses" industry.
Coupang (NYSE:CPNG) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
Coupang presently has a consensus target price of $25.42, suggesting a potential upside of 12.91%. Amazon.com has a consensus target price of $211.62, suggesting a potential upside of 14.37%. Given Coupang's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Amazon.com is more favorable than Coupang.
Amazon.com received 4673 more outperform votes than Coupang when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.55% of users gave Amazon.com an outperform vote while only 46.88% of users gave Coupang an outperform vote.
Coupang has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amazon.com has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Amazon.com has a net margin of 6.38% compared to Amazon.com's net margin of 4.96%. Coupang's return on equity of 19.86% beat Amazon.com's return on equity.
In the previous week, Amazon.com had 117 more articles in the media than Coupang. MarketBeat recorded 148 mentions for Amazon.com and 31 mentions for Coupang. Coupang's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Amazon.com's score of 0.36 indicating that Amazon.com is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
83.7% of Coupang shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Amazon.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.9% of Coupang shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of Amazon.com shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Amazon.com has higher revenue and earnings than Coupang. Coupang is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amazon.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Amazon.com beats Coupang on 17 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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