CTRP vs. LOW, MELI, SBUX, ORLY, CMG, CVNA, AZO, JD, CPNG, and FAST
Should you be buying Ctrip.Com International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ctrip.Com International include Lowe's Companies (LOW), MercadoLibre (MELI), Starbucks (SBUX), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Carvana (CVNA), AutoZone (AZO), JD.com (JD), Coupang (CPNG), and Fastenal (FAST). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Ctrip.Com International vs. Its Competitors
Ctrip.Com International (NASDAQ:CTRP) and Lowe's Companies (NYSE:LOW) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Lowe's Companies has a consensus target price of $271.12, suggesting a potential upside of 23.17%. Given Lowe's Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lowe's Companies is more favorable than Ctrip.Com International.
Ctrip.Com International has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lowe's Companies has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
61.4% of Ctrip.Com International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.1% of Lowe's Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 23.0% of Ctrip.Com International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Lowe's Companies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Lowe's Companies had 51 more articles in the media than Ctrip.Com International. MarketBeat recorded 51 mentions for Lowe's Companies and 0 mentions for Ctrip.Com International. Lowe's Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Ctrip.Com International's score of 0.00 indicating that Lowe's Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lowe's Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Ctrip.Com International. Lowe's Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ctrip.Com International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lowe's Companies has a net margin of 8.22% compared to Ctrip.Com International's net margin of 5.79%. Ctrip.Com International's return on equity of 3.91% beat Lowe's Companies' return on equity.
Lowe's Companies received 736 more outperform votes than Ctrip.Com International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.42% of users gave Ctrip.Com International an outperform vote while only 69.45% of users gave Lowe's Companies an outperform vote.
Summary
Lowe's Companies beats Ctrip.Com International on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CTRP) was last updated on 6/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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