BURL vs. DDS, M, WING, CASY, TXRH, KMX, PFGC, PAG, BBWI, and FBIN
Should you be buying Burlington Stores stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Burlington Stores include Dillard's (DDS), Macy's (M), Wingstop (WING), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), CarMax (KMX), Performance Food Group (PFGC), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Bath & Body Works (BBWI), and Fortune Brands Innovations (FBIN). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Burlington Stores (NYSE:BURL) and Dillard's (NYSE:DDS) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
Burlington Stores received 337 more outperform votes than Dillard's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.08% of users gave Burlington Stores an outperform vote while only 60.54% of users gave Dillard's an outperform vote.
Burlington Stores has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dillard's has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
67.2% of Dillard's shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Burlington Stores shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.8% of Dillard's shares are owned by company 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 has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Burlington Stores. Dillard's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Burlington Stores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Burlington Stores currently has a consensus price target of $216.06, indicating a potential upside of 16.39%. Dillard's has a consensus price target of $305.67, indicating a potential downside of 29.59%. Given Burlington Stores' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Burlington Stores is more favorable than Dillard's.
Dillard's has a net margin of 10.94% compared to Burlington Stores' net margin of 3.49%. Burlington Stores' return on equity of 45.28% beat Dillard's' return on equity.
In the previous week, Burlington Stores had 14 more articles in the media than Dillard's. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Burlington Stores and 4 mentions for Dillard's. Dillard's' average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Burlington Stores' score of 0.47 indicating that Dillard's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Burlington Stores beats Dillard's on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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