Amazon.com (AMZN) Competitors

Walmart (NYSE:WMT) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.

Do analysts rate WMT or AMZN?

Walmart currently has a consensus price target of $61.75, suggesting a potential upside of 3.73%. Amazon.com has a consensus price target of $202.80, suggesting a potential upside of 16.13%. Given Walmart's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Amazon.com is more favorable than Walmart.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Walmart	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	25 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.86
Amazon.com	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	43 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of WMT or AMZN?

26.8% of Walmart shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Amazon.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 46.5% of Walmart shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of Amazon.com shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is WMT or AMZN more profitable?

Amazon.com has a net margin of 5.29% compared to Amazon.com's net margin of 2.39%. Amazon.com's return on equity of 21.08% beat Walmart's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Walmart	2.39%	21.08%	7.09%
Amazon.com	5.29%	16.61%	6.01%

Which has more risk and volatility, WMT or AMZN?

Walmart has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amazon.com has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, WMT or AMZN?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Walmart	$648.13B	0.74	$15.51B	$1.91	31.11
Amazon.com	$574.79B	3.16	$30.43B	$2.90	60.22

Does the media prefer WMT or AMZN?

In the previous week, Amazon.com had 68 more articles in the media than Walmart. MarketBeat recorded 126 mentions for Amazon.com and 58 mentions for Walmart. Walmart's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Amazon.com's score of 0.32 indicating that Amazon.com is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Walmart	26 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	21 Neutral mention(s)	5 Negative mention(s)	2 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Amazon.com	74 Very Positive mention(s)	16 Positive mention(s)	23 Neutral mention(s)	6 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor WMT or AMZN?

Amazon.com received 3218 more outperform votes than Walmart when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.12% of users gave Walmart an outperform vote while only 58.37% of users gave Amazon.com an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Walmart	Outperform Votes 1450 60.12%	Underperform Votes 962 39.88%
Amazon.com	Outperform Votes 4668 58.37%	Underperform Votes 3329 41.63%

Summary

Amazon.com beats Walmart on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.