AMZN vs. WMT, HD, BABA, OSTK, CPNG, W, NSIT, RVLV, CNXN, and DDL
Should you be buying Amazon.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amazon.com include Walmart (WMT), Home Depot (HD), Alibaba Group (BABA), Overstock.com (OSTK), Coupang (CPNG), Wayfair (W), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), Revolve Group (RVLV), PC Connection (CNXN), and Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Amazon.com vs.
Walmart (NYSE:WMT) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Amazon.com received 3151 more outperform votes than Walmart when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.24% of users gave Walmart an outperform vote while only 58.09% of users gave Amazon.com an outperform vote.
Amazon.com has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Walmart has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amazon.com has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Amazon.com had 94 more articles in the media than Walmart. MarketBeat recorded 109 mentions for Amazon.com and 15 mentions for Walmart. Amazon.com's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Walmart's score of -0.03 indicating that Amazon.com is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Walmart presently has a consensus price target of $160.91, suggesting a potential upside of 11.22%. Amazon.com has a consensus price target of $145.81, suggesting a potential upside of 38.67%. Given Amazon.com's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Amazon.com is more favorable than Walmart.
31.3% of Walmart shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.6% of Amazon.com shares are held by institutional investors. 47.1% of Walmart shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of Amazon.com shares are held 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.
Amazon.com has a net margin of 2.25% compared to Walmart's net margin of 1.49%. Walmart's return on equity of 19.54% beat Amazon.com's return on equity.
Summary
Amazon.com beats Walmart on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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