M vs. DDS, KSS, BURL, ZGN, GLBE, BECN, ABG, AEO, SIG, and GME
Should you be buying Macy's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Macy's include Dillard's (DDS), Kohl's (KSS), Burlington Stores (BURL), Ermenegildo Zegna (ZGN), Global-E Online (GLBE), Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Signet Jewelers (SIG), and GameStop (GME). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Dillard's (NYSE:DDS) and Macy's (NYSE:M) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
67.2% of Dillard's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Macy's shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.8% of Dillard's shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Macy's shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Dillard's presently has a consensus price target of $332.50, suggesting a potential downside of 25.59%. Macy's has a consensus price target of $17.73, suggesting a potential downside of 13.95%. Given Dillard's' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Macy's is more favorable than Dillard's.
Dillard's has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Macy's. Dillard's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Macy's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dillard's has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Macy's has a beta of 2.16, meaning that its stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Macy's received 502 more outperform votes than Dillard's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.46% of users gave Dillard's an outperform vote while only 59.46% of users gave Macy's an outperform vote.
Dillard's has a net margin of 10.68% compared to Dillard's' net margin of 0.05%. Macy's' return on equity of 39.41% beat Dillard's' return on equity.
Dillard's pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Macy's pays an annual dividend of $0.69 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Dillard's pays out 2.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Macy's pays out 2,300.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Dillard's has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Macy's has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Macy's had 24 more articles in the media than Dillard's. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Macy's and 11 mentions for Dillard's. Dillard's' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Macy's' score of 0.44 indicating that Macy's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Macy's beats Dillard's on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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