JWN vs. BKE, AEO, ANF, GPS, BOOT, GME, HGTY, ACVA, TRIP, and RUSHB
Should you be buying Nordstrom stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nordstrom include Buckle (BKE), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), GAP (GPS), Boot Barn (BOOT), GameStop (GME), Hagerty (HGTY), ACV Auctions (ACVA), Tripadvisor (TRIP), and Rush Enterprises (RUSHB). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Buckle (NYSE:BKE) and Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
Buckle has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nordstrom has a beta of 2.59, meaning that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Buckle has a net margin of 17.44% compared to Buckle's net margin of 0.91%. Nordstrom's return on equity of 50.88% beat Buckle's return on equity.
Buckle pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Nordstrom pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Buckle pays out 31.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nordstrom pays out 95.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Buckle presently has a consensus price target of $34.00, suggesting a potential downside of 9.50%. Nordstrom has a consensus price target of $16.54, suggesting a potential downside of 13.55%. Given Nordstrom's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Buckle is more favorable than Nordstrom.
Buckle has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Nordstrom. Buckle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nordstrom, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nordstrom received 622 more outperform votes than Buckle when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.81% of users gave Nordstrom an outperform vote while only 57.40% of users gave Buckle an outperform vote.
53.9% of Buckle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of Nordstrom shares are held by institutional investors. 40.1% of Buckle shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Nordstrom shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Nordstrom had 8 more articles in the media than Buckle. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Nordstrom and 1 mentions for Buckle. Nordstrom's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat Buckle's score of 0.24 indicating that Buckle is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Buckle and Nordstrom tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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