BURL vs. DDS, M, KSS, ORLY, ROST, AZO, JD, YUM, CPNG, and KR
Should you be buying Burlington Stores stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Burlington Stores include Dillard's (DDS), Macy's (M), Kohl's (KSS), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), Ross Stores (ROST), AutoZone (AZO), JD.com (JD), Yum! Brands (YUM), Coupang (CPNG), and Kroger (KR). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Dillard's (NYSE:DDS) and Burlington Stores (NYSE:BURL) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Dillard's presently has a consensus target price of $332.50, indicating a potential downside of 22.57%. Burlington Stores has a consensus target price of $246.87, indicating a potential upside of 7.70%. Given Dillard's' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Burlington Stores is more favorable than Dillard's.
Burlington Stores received 348 more outperform votes than Dillard's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.18% of users gave Burlington Stores an outperform vote while only 60.46% of users gave Dillard's an outperform vote.
Dillard's has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Burlington Stores. Dillard's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Burlington Stores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Burlington Stores had 8 more articles in the media than Dillard's. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Burlington Stores and 12 mentions for Dillard's. Burlington Stores' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Dillard's' score of 0.64 indicating that Dillard's is being referred to more favorably in the media.
67.2% of Dillard's shares are held by institutional investors. 33.8% of Dillard's shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Burlington Stores shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Dillard's has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Burlington Stores has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dillard's has a net margin of 10.68% compared to Dillard's' net margin of 3.87%. Dillard's' return on equity of 46.39% beat Burlington Stores' return on equity.
Summary
Burlington Stores beats Dillard's on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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