TJX vs. ROST, GPS, ANF, AEO, URBN, FL, BKE, GES, CAL, and SCVL
Should you be buying TJX Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TJX Companies include Ross Stores (ROST), GAP (GPS), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Urban Outfitters (URBN), Foot Locker (FL), Buckle (BKE), Guess? (GES), Caleres (CAL), and Shoe Carnival (SCVL). These companies are all part of the "apparel retail" industry.
TJX Companies (NYSE:TJX) and Ross Stores (NASDAQ:ROST) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and earnings.
TJX Companies presently has a consensus price target of $110.37, suggesting a potential upside of 1.75%. Ross Stores has a consensus price target of $156.58, suggesting a potential upside of 8.49%. Given Ross Stores' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ross Stores is more favorable than TJX Companies.
91.1% of TJX Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Ross Stores shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of TJX Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Ross Stores shares are owned by company 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.
Ross Stores has a net margin of 9.60% compared to TJX Companies' net margin of 8.47%. TJX Companies' return on equity of 64.26% beat Ross Stores' return on equity.
TJX Companies has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ross Stores has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TJX Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Ross Stores pays an annual dividend of $1.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. TJX Companies pays out 37.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ross Stores pays out 24.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
TJX Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Ross Stores. Ross Stores is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TJX Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, TJX Companies had 11 more articles in the media than Ross Stores. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for TJX Companies and 14 mentions for Ross Stores. Ross Stores' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat TJX Companies' score of 0.94 indicating that Ross Stores is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TJX Companies received 234 more outperform votes than Ross Stores when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.03% of users gave TJX Companies an outperform vote while only 64.13% of users gave Ross Stores an outperform vote.
Summary
TJX Companies beats Ross Stores on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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