ROST vs. URBN, JWN, LE, TJX, JD, CPNG, KR, YUM, FAST, and AZO
Should you be buying Ross Stores stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ross Stores include Urban Outfitters (URBN), Nordstrom (JWN), Lands' End (LE), TJX Companies (TJX), JD.com (JD), Coupang (CPNG), Kroger (KR), Yum! Brands (YUM), Fastenal (FAST), and AutoZone (AZO).
Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) and Ross Stores (NASDAQ:ROST) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
Ross Stores has a net margin of 9.20% compared to Ross Stores' net margin of 5.58%. Urban Outfitters' return on equity of 41.15% beat Ross Stores' return on equity.
Ross Stores has higher revenue and earnings than Urban Outfitters. Urban Outfitters is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ross Stores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Urban Outfitters has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ross Stores has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Urban Outfitters received 313 more outperform votes than Ross Stores when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.09% of users gave Ross Stores an outperform vote while only 59.90% of users gave Urban Outfitters an outperform vote.
Urban Outfitters presently has a consensus target price of $39.67, suggesting a potential upside of 2.29%. Ross Stores has a consensus target price of $155.21, suggesting a potential upside of 17.45%. Given Urban Outfitters' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ross Stores is more favorable than Urban Outfitters.
In the previous week, Ross Stores had 5 more articles in the media than Urban Outfitters. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Ross Stores and 6 mentions for Urban Outfitters. Urban Outfitters' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Ross Stores' score of 0.81 indicating that Ross Stores is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
77.6% of Urban Outfitters shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Ross Stores shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.8% of Urban Outfitters shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Ross Stores shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Ross Stores beats Urban Outfitters on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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