HD vs. LOW, COST, MCD, WMT, BABA, PDD, BKNG, TJX, SBUX, and CVS
Should you be buying Home Depot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Home Depot include Lowe's Companies (LOW), Costco Wholesale (COST), McDonald's (MCD), Walmart (WMT), Alibaba Group (BABA), PDD (PDD), Booking (BKNG), TJX Companies (TJX), Starbucks (SBUX), and CVS Health (CVS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Lowe's Companies (NYSE:LOW) and Home Depot (NYSE:HD) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
Lowe's Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Home Depot pays an annual dividend of $9.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Lowe's Companies pays out 33.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Home Depot pays out 59.6% 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. Lowe's Companies has increased its dividend for 52 consecutive years and Home Depot has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Home Depot had 27 more articles in the media than Lowe's Companies. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for Home Depot and 17 mentions for Lowe's Companies. Home Depot's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Lowe's Companies' score of 0.58 indicating that Lowe's Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Home Depot has a net margin of 9.92% compared to Home Depot's net margin of 8.94%. Lowe's Companies' return on equity of 1,452.22% beat Home Depot's return on equity.
Lowe's Companies presently has a consensus price target of $252.52, indicating a potential upside of 9.32%. Home Depot has a consensus price target of $375.96, indicating a potential upside of 12.21%. Given Lowe's Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Home Depot is more favorable than Lowe's Companies.
Lowe's Companies has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Home Depot has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
74.1% of Lowe's Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Home Depot shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Lowe's Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Home Depot shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Home Depot has higher revenue and earnings than Lowe's Companies. Lowe's Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home Depot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Home Depot received 309 more outperform votes than Lowe's Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.61% of users gave Home Depot an outperform vote while only 70.05% of users gave Lowe's Companies an outperform vote.
Summary
Home Depot beats Lowe's Companies on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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