ULTA vs. SBH, FLWS, TITN, SGU, KIRK, YJ, JD, DPZ, EXPE, and DRI
Should you be buying Ulta Beauty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ulta Beauty include Sally Beauty (SBH), 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), Titan Machinery (TITN), Star Group (SGU), Kirkland's (KIRK), Yunji (YJ), JD.com (JD), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Expedia Group (EXPE), and Darden Restaurants (DRI).
Sally Beauty (NYSE:SBH) 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 valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
90.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Sally Beauty shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Ulta Beauty shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Ulta Beauty had 24 more articles in the media than Sally Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Ulta Beauty and 3 mentions for Sally Beauty. Ulta Beauty's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Sally Beauty's score of 1.00 indicating that Sally Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sally Beauty has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ulta Beauty has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ulta Beauty received 825 more outperform votes than Sally Beauty when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.41% of users gave Ulta Beauty an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Sally Beauty an outperform vote.
Ulta Beauty has higher revenue and earnings than Sally Beauty. Sally Beauty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ulta Beauty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sally Beauty currently has a consensus price target of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.49%. Ulta Beauty has a consensus price target of $548.05, suggesting a potential upside of 37.93%. Given Sally Beauty's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ulta Beauty is more favorable than Sally Beauty.
Ulta Beauty has a net margin of 11.52% compared to Ulta Beauty's net margin of 4.66%. Sally Beauty's return on equity of 61.64% beat Ulta Beauty's return on equity.
Summary
Ulta Beauty beats Sally Beauty on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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