PSMT vs. WMT, COST, OLLI, MNSO, FIVE, TGT, DG, DLTR, BJ, and CART
Should you be buying PriceSmart stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PriceSmart include Walmart (WMT), Costco Wholesale (COST), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), MINISO Group (MNSO), Five Below (FIVE), Target (TGT), Dollar General (DG), Dollar Tree (DLTR), BJ's Wholesale Club (BJ), and Maplebear (CART).
PriceSmart vs.
PriceSmart (NASDAQ:PSMT) and Walmart (NYSE:WMT) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.
Walmart has higher revenue and earnings than PriceSmart. PriceSmart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Walmart, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PriceSmart has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Walmart has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
80.5% of PriceSmart shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.8% of Walmart shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.1% of PriceSmart shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 45.6% of Walmart shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Walmart has a net margin of 2.85% compared to PriceSmart's net margin of 2.76%. Walmart's return on equity of 21.87% beat PriceSmart's return on equity.
PriceSmart pays an annual dividend of $1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Walmart pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. PriceSmart pays out 26.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Walmart pays out 39.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Walmart has raised its dividend for 53 consecutive years. PriceSmart is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Walmart has a consensus price target of $103.58, suggesting a potential upside of 6.53%. Given Walmart's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Walmart is more favorable than PriceSmart.
In the previous week, Walmart had 99 more articles in the media than PriceSmart. MarketBeat recorded 111 mentions for Walmart and 12 mentions for PriceSmart. PriceSmart's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Walmart's score of 0.67 indicating that PriceSmart is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Walmart received 1264 more outperform votes than PriceSmart when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.46% of users gave PriceSmart an outperform vote while only 61.88% of users gave Walmart an outperform vote.
Summary
Walmart beats PriceSmart on 15 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PSMT) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
