ULTA vs. TSCO, DKS, FIVE, SIG, WINA, SBH, ODP, HZO, BGFV, and JD
Should you be buying Ulta Beauty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ulta Beauty include Tractor Supply (TSCO), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Five Below (FIVE), Signet Jewelers (SIG), Winmark (WINA), Sally Beauty (SBH), ODP (ODP), MarineMax (HZO), Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV), and JD.com (JD). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Ulta Beauty vs.
Tractor Supply (NASDAQ:TSCO) and Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ:ULTA) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
Tractor Supply has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ulta Beauty has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ulta Beauty received 261 more outperform votes than Tractor Supply when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.61% of users gave Tractor Supply an outperform vote while only 67.98% of users gave Ulta Beauty an outperform vote.
Ulta Beauty has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tractor Supply. Ulta Beauty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tractor Supply, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.7% of Tractor Supply shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Tractor Supply shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ulta Beauty has a net margin of 10.58% compared to Tractor Supply's net margin of 7.40%. Ulta Beauty's return on equity of 51.95% beat Tractor Supply's return on equity.
Tractor Supply currently has a consensus price target of $58.02, suggesting a potential upside of 15.95%. Ulta Beauty has a consensus price target of $424.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.76%. Given Tractor Supply's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Tractor Supply is more favorable than Ulta Beauty.
In the previous week, Tractor Supply had 14 more articles in the media than Ulta Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Tractor Supply and 28 mentions for Ulta Beauty. Ulta Beauty's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Tractor Supply's score of 1.15 indicating that Ulta Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Tractor Supply beats Ulta Beauty on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ULTA) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff