SIG vs. ULTA, DKS, FIVE, ODP, SBH, WINA, HIBB, HZO, BGFV, and TSCO
Should you be buying Signet Jewelers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Signet Jewelers include Ulta Beauty (ULTA), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Five Below (FIVE), ODP (ODP), Sally Beauty (SBH), Winmark (WINA), Hibbett (HIBB), MarineMax (HZO), Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV), and Tractor Supply (TSCO). These companies are all part of the "specialty stores" industry.
Signet Jewelers (NYSE:SIG) and Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ:ULTA) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Signet Jewelers has a net margin of 11.30% compared to Ulta Beauty's net margin of 11.13%. Ulta Beauty's return on equity of 58.06% beat Signet Jewelers' return on equity.
Signet Jewelers presently has a consensus target price of $121.20, suggesting a potential upside of 14.61%. Ulta Beauty has a consensus target price of $507.30, suggesting a potential upside of 32.59%. Given Ulta Beauty's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ulta Beauty is more favorable than Signet Jewelers.
90.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Signet Jewelers shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Signet Jewelers has a beta of 2.12, indicating that its share price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ulta Beauty has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ulta Beauty had 18 more articles in the media than Signet Jewelers. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Ulta Beauty and 13 mentions for Signet Jewelers. Ulta Beauty's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Signet Jewelers' score of 0.61 indicating that Ulta Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ulta Beauty has higher revenue and earnings than Signet Jewelers. Signet Jewelers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ulta Beauty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ulta Beauty received 486 more outperform votes than Signet Jewelers when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.88% of users gave Signet Jewelers an outperform vote while only 69.35% of users gave Ulta Beauty an outperform vote.
Summary
Ulta Beauty beats Signet Jewelers on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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