Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) Vs. BABA, WMT, HD, COST, MCD, LOW, SBUX, TGT, PDD, and CVS
Should you be buying Amazon.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amazon.com include Alibaba Group (BABA), Walmart (WMT), The Home Depot (HD), Costco Wholesale (COST), McDonald's (MCD), Lowe's Companies (LOW), Starbucks (SBUX), Target (TGT), Pinduoduo (PDD), and CVS Health (CVS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
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Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Walmart (NYSE:WMT) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Amazon.com currently has a consensus price target of $4,173.02, indicating a potential upside of 25.11%. Walmart has a consensus price target of $171.09, indicating a potential upside of 15.33%. Given Amazon.com's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Amazon.com is more favorable than Walmart.
Amazon.com received 3106 more outperform votes than Walmart when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.24% of users gave Walmart an outperform vote while only 58.59% of users gave Amazon.com an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Amazon.com had 18 more articles in the media than Walmart. MarketBeat recorded 64 mentions for Amazon.com and 46 mentions for Walmart. Amazon.com's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Walmart's score of 0.13 indicating that Amazon.com is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Amazon.com has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Walmart has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Amazon.com has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Walmart. 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.
Amazon.com has a net margin of 6.64% compared to Walmart's net margin of 1.78%. Amazon.com's return on equity of 29.86% beat Walmart's return on equity.
57.7% of Amazon.com shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.2% of Walmart shares are held by institutional investors. 14.0% of Amazon.com shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 48.4% of Walmart shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Amazon.com beats Walmart on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding AMZN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment >-1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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Amazon.com Competitors List
