AMZN vs. WMT, CPNG, W, NSIT, CNXN, RVLV, DDL, SFIX, HEPS, and JMIA
Should you be buying Amazon.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amazon.com include Walmart (WMT), Coupang (CPNG), Wayfair (W), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), PC Connection (CNXN), Revolve Group (RVLV), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), Stitch Fix (SFIX), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), and Jumia Technologies (JMIA). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Walmart (NYSE:WMT) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings and valuation.
33.2% of Walmart shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.0% of Amazon.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 46.5% of Walmart shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of Amazon.com shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Amazon.com had 40 more articles in the media than Walmart. MarketBeat recorded 77 mentions for Amazon.com and 37 mentions for Walmart. Walmart's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Amazon.com's score of 0.45 indicating that Amazon.com is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Walmart pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Amazon.com pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Walmart pays out 37.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Amazon.com pays out 10.4% 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. Walmart has raised its dividend for 50 consecutive years. Walmart is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Amazon.com received 3179 more outperform votes than Walmart when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.96% of users gave Walmart an outperform vote while only 58.08% of users gave Amazon.com an outperform vote.
Amazon.com has a net margin of 3.62% compared to Amazon.com's net margin of 2.55%. Amazon.com's return on equity of 21.20% beat Walmart's return on equity.
Walmart has higher revenue and earnings than Amazon.com. Walmart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amazon.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Walmart currently has a consensus price target of $179.44, indicating a potential upside of 17.69%. Amazon.com has a consensus price target of $169.88, indicating a potential upside of 15.66%. Given Amazon.com's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Walmart is more favorable than Amazon.com.
Walmart has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amazon.com has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Amazon.com beats Walmart on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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