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FCFS vs. SFM, BURL, CHWY, BJ, ACI, FND, MUSA, GAP, VIPS, and BBWI

Should you be buying FirstCash stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FirstCash include Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), Burlington Stores (BURL), Chewy (CHWY), BJ's Wholesale Club (BJ), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Floor & Decor (FND), Murphy USA (MUSA), GAP (GAP), Vipshop (VIPS), and Bath & Body Works (BBWI). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.

FirstCash vs.

Sprouts Farmers Market (NASDAQ:SFM) and FirstCash (NASDAQ:FCFS) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.

FirstCash has a net margin of 7.64% compared to Sprouts Farmers Market's net margin of 4.73%. Sprouts Farmers Market's return on equity of 28.24% beat FirstCash's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Sprouts Farmers Market4.73% 28.24% 10.18%
FirstCash 7.64%14.99%6.94%

Sprouts Farmers Market received 655 more outperform votes than FirstCash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.52% of users gave Sprouts Farmers Market an outperform vote while only 40.91% of users gave FirstCash an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Sprouts Farmers MarketOutperform Votes
673
61.52%
Underperform Votes
421
38.48%
FirstCashOutperform Votes
18
40.91%
Underperform Votes
26
59.09%

Sprouts Farmers Market has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FirstCash has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Sprouts Farmers Market currently has a consensus target price of $124.40, suggesting a potential downside of 27.46%. FirstCash has a consensus target price of $135.67, suggesting a potential upside of 15.68%. Given FirstCash's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe FirstCash is more favorable than Sprouts Farmers Market.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Sprouts Farmers Market
0 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.27
FirstCash
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

Sprouts Farmers Market has higher revenue and earnings than FirstCash. FirstCash is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sprouts Farmers Market, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Sprouts Farmers Market$6.84B2.51$258.86M$3.4649.57
FirstCash$3.39B1.55$258.82M$5.7320.47

80.3% of FirstCash shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Sprouts Farmers Market shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.8% of FirstCash shares are held 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, Sprouts Farmers Market had 11 more articles in the media than FirstCash. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Sprouts Farmers Market and 6 mentions for FirstCash. Sprouts Farmers Market's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat FirstCash's score of 0.42 indicating that Sprouts Farmers Market is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Sprouts Farmers Market
9 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
FirstCash
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Sprouts Farmers Market beats FirstCash on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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FCFS vs. The Competition

MetricFirstCashretail IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$5.25B$1.19B$8.13B$9.20B
Dividend Yield1.36%2.73%2.23%3.99%
P/E Ratio20.4716.3135.9019.51
Price / Sales1.552.8981.4969.98
Price / Cash6.2130.2231.5438.90
Price / Book2.561.566.185.07
Net Income$258.82M$66.44M$142.71M$222.54M
7 Day Performance0.66%1.36%1.04%2.13%
1 Month Performance4.58%0.80%1.28%1.63%
1 Year Performance-0.92%26.80%20.83%16.41%

FirstCash Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FCFS
FirstCash
4.7477 of 5 stars
$117.28
+0.0%
$135.67
+15.7%
-0.9%$5.25B$3.39B20.4719,000Short Interest ↑
SFM
Sprouts Farmers Market
2.5652 of 5 stars
$168.90
+0.6%
$119.40
-29.3%
+224.5%$16.89B$7.42B48.8231,000Upcoming Earnings
BURL
Burlington Stores
4.8816 of 5 stars
$254.02
-2.3%
$317.87
+25.1%
+26.3%$16.13B$9.73B34.8071,049Short Interest ↓
High Trading Volume
CHWY
Chewy
3.6321 of 5 stars
$37.69
+1.4%
$36.80
-2.4%
+126.4%$15.35B$11.15B41.4118,100Short Interest ↓
BJ
BJ's Wholesale Club
1.6732 of 5 stars
$106.43
+1.9%
$94.88
-10.9%
+53.1%$14.06B$19.97B25.5834,000Analyst Revision
ACI
Albertsons Companies
4.3401 of 5 stars
$21.21
+1.5%
$23.21
+9.5%
-4.4%$12.29B$79.24B11.91200,000Short Interest ↓
Positive News
FND
Floor & Decor
3.4284 of 5 stars
$98.96
-2.1%
$105.67
+6.8%
-11.1%$10.61B$4.41B54.9812,783Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
MUSA
Murphy USA
3.5524 of 5 stars
$488.57
+1.6%
$510.80
+4.6%
+21.6%$9.89B$20.24B20.1915,600Dividend Increase
Positive News
GAP
GAP
4.2177 of 5 stars
$22.62
+0.6%
$29.27
+29.4%
N/A$8.53B$15.24B10.4785,000
VIPS
Vipshop
4.2496 of 5 stars
$15.31
+2.2%
$17.50
+14.3%
-13.1%$7.86B$111.96B7.3214,638Upcoming Earnings
Gap Up
BBWI
Bath & Body Works
4.7868 of 5 stars
$35.48
-1.1%
$43.19
+21.7%
-12.1%$7.68B$7.43B8.6557,157Analyst Upgrade
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This page (NASDAQ:FCFS) was last updated on 2/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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