ULTA vs. SBH, FLWS, TITN, SGU, KIRK, YJ, JD, DPZ, DRI, and WSM
Should you be buying Ulta Beauty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ulta Beauty include Sally Beauty (SBH), 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), Titan Machinery (TITN), Star Group (SGU), Kirkland's (KIRK), Yunji (YJ), JD.com (JD), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Darden Restaurants (DRI), and Williams-Sonoma (WSM).
Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ:ULTA) and Sally Beauty (NYSE:SBH) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Ulta Beauty has a net margin of 11.52% compared to Sally Beauty's net margin of 4.36%. Ulta Beauty's return on equity of 61.64% beat Sally Beauty's return on equity.
Ulta Beauty has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sally Beauty has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
90.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Sally Beauty shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ulta Beauty received 828 more outperform votes than Sally Beauty when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.31% of users gave Ulta Beauty an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Sally Beauty an outperform vote.
Ulta Beauty presently has a consensus target price of $527.57, suggesting a potential upside of 37.72%. Sally Beauty has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.53%. Given Ulta Beauty's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Ulta Beauty is more favorable than Sally Beauty.
Ulta Beauty has higher revenue and earnings than Sally Beauty. Sally Beauty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ulta Beauty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ulta Beauty had 35 more articles in the media than Sally Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Ulta Beauty and 2 mentions for Sally Beauty. Sally Beauty's average media sentiment score of 1.82 beat Ulta Beauty's score of 0.86 indicating that Sally Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ulta Beauty beats Sally Beauty on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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