BKE vs. URBN, AEO, ANF, JWN, CAKE, SAH, BLMN, CNXN, PLAY, and FL
Should you be buying Buckle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Buckle include Urban Outfitters (URBN), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), Nordstrom (JWN), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), PC Connection (CNXN), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), and Foot Locker (FL). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Buckle (NYSE:BKE) and Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Buckle currently has a consensus target price of $32.00, suggesting a potential downside of 12.95%. Urban Outfitters has a consensus target price of $43.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.16%. Given Urban Outfitters' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Urban Outfitters is more favorable than Buckle.
Urban Outfitters received 895 more outperform votes than Buckle when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.81% of users gave Urban Outfitters an outperform vote while only 57.23% of users gave Buckle an outperform vote.
Urban Outfitters has higher revenue and earnings than Buckle. Buckle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Urban Outfitters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Buckle has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urban Outfitters has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Buckle has a net margin of 17.07% compared to Urban Outfitters' net margin of 5.66%. Buckle's return on equity of 48.21% beat Urban Outfitters' return on equity.
53.9% of Buckle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.6% of Urban Outfitters shares are held by institutional investors. 39.8% of Buckle shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.8% of Urban Outfitters shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Urban Outfitters had 38 more articles in the media than Buckle. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for Urban Outfitters and 16 mentions for Buckle. Urban Outfitters' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Buckle's score of -0.10 indicating that Urban Outfitters is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Urban Outfitters beats Buckle on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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