DKS vs. CVNA, BBY, WBA, DRI, EXPE, DPZ, YUMC, ULTA, DECK, and CASY
Should you be buying DICK'S Sporting Goods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DICK'S Sporting Goods include Carvana (CVNA), Best Buy (BBY), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Expedia Group (EXPE), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Yum China (YUMC), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), Deckers Outdoor (DECK), and Casey's General Stores (CASY). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Carvana (NYSE:CVNA) and DICK'S Sporting Goods (NYSE:DKS) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
56.7% of Carvana shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of DICK'S Sporting Goods shares are held by institutional investors. 17.1% of Carvana shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.8% of DICK'S Sporting Goods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
DICK'S Sporting Goods has higher revenue and earnings than Carvana. DICK'S Sporting Goods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carvana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Carvana currently has a consensus target price of $73.44, indicating a potential downside of 39.67%. DICK'S Sporting Goods has a consensus target price of $208.64, indicating a potential upside of 2.92%. Given Carvana's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe DICK'S Sporting Goods is more favorable than Carvana.
Carvana has a beta of 3.28, indicating that its stock price is 228% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DICK'S Sporting Goods has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Carvana had 67 more articles in the media than DICK'S Sporting Goods. MarketBeat recorded 78 mentions for Carvana and 11 mentions for DICK'S Sporting Goods. Carvana's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat DICK'S Sporting Goods' score of 0.53 indicating that DICK'S Sporting Goods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DICK'S Sporting Goods has a net margin of 8.06% compared to DICK'S Sporting Goods' net margin of 5.68%. Carvana's return on equity of 42.99% beat DICK'S Sporting Goods' return on equity.
DICK'S Sporting Goods received 922 more outperform votes than Carvana when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.44% of users gave DICK'S Sporting Goods an outperform vote while only 58.09% of users gave Carvana an outperform vote.
Summary
DICK'S Sporting Goods beats Carvana on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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