SBUX vs. MELI, CMG, TGT, CVS, ORLY, TJX, AZO, JD, ROST, and BKNG
Should you be buying Starbucks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Starbucks include MercadoLibre (MELI), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Target (TGT), CVS Health (CVS), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), TJX Companies (TJX), AutoZone (AZO), JD.com (JD), Ross Stores (ROST), and Booking (BKNG). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) and MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI) 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 analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and community ranking.
Starbucks has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MercadoLibre has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
72.3% of Starbucks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of MercadoLibre shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Starbucks shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of MercadoLibre shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Starbucks has a net margin of 11.38% compared to MercadoLibre's net margin of 7.17%. MercadoLibre's return on equity of 39.46% beat Starbucks' return on equity.
Starbucks received 1430 more outperform votes than MercadoLibre when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.72% of users gave Starbucks an outperform vote while only 65.19% of users gave MercadoLibre an outperform vote.
Starbucks has higher revenue and earnings than MercadoLibre. Starbucks is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MercadoLibre, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Starbucks had 58 more articles in the media than MercadoLibre. MarketBeat recorded 75 mentions for Starbucks and 17 mentions for MercadoLibre. MercadoLibre's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Starbucks' score of 0.15 indicating that MercadoLibre is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Starbucks currently has a consensus target price of $96.43, indicating a potential upside of 26.70%. MercadoLibre has a consensus target price of $1,805.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.55%. Given Starbucks' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Starbucks is more favorable than MercadoLibre.
Summary
Starbucks and MercadoLibre tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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