PSMT vs. BJ, WMT, COST, OLLI, MNSO, FIVE, EXTO, BIG, TGT, and DG
Should you be buying PriceSmart stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PriceSmart include BJ's Wholesale Club (BJ), Walmart (WMT), Costco Wholesale (COST), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), MINISO Group (MNSO), Five Below (FIVE), Almacenes Éxito (EXTO), Big Lots (BIG), Target (TGT), and Dollar General (DG). These companies are all part of the "variety stores" industry.
BJ's Wholesale Club (NYSE:BJ) and PriceSmart (NASDAQ:PSMT) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
BJ's Wholesale Club currently has a consensus price target of $82.35, indicating a potential downside of 6.37%. PriceSmart has a consensus price target of $90.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.69%. Given BJ's Wholesale Club's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PriceSmart is more favorable than BJ's Wholesale Club.
98.6% of BJ's Wholesale Club shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.5% of PriceSmart shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of BJ's Wholesale Club shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.6% of PriceSmart shares are held by company 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, BJ's Wholesale Club had 6 more articles in the media than PriceSmart. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for BJ's Wholesale Club and 8 mentions for PriceSmart. PriceSmart's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat BJ's Wholesale Club's score of 0.36 indicating that BJ's Wholesale Club is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PriceSmart received 91 more outperform votes than BJ's Wholesale Club when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.45% of users gave PriceSmart an outperform vote while only 53.62% of users gave BJ's Wholesale Club an outperform vote.
BJ's Wholesale Club has a beta of 0.23, indicating that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PriceSmart has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BJ's Wholesale Club has higher revenue and earnings than PriceSmart. PriceSmart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BJ's Wholesale Club, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PriceSmart has a net margin of 2.60% compared to PriceSmart's net margin of 2.59%. PriceSmart's return on equity of 37.78% beat BJ's Wholesale Club's return on equity.
Summary
BJ's Wholesale Club and PriceSmart tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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