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Ulta Beauty (ULTA) Competitors

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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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Tractor SupplyOutperform Votes
1047
69.61%
Underperform Votes
457
30.39%
Ulta BeautyOutperform Votes
1308
67.98%
Underperform Votes
616
32.02%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Tractor Supply$14.96B1.77$1.10B$2.0124.90
Ulta Beauty$11.30B1.62$1.29B$25.3715.95

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Tractor Supply7.40% 49.01% 11.32%
Ulta Beauty 10.58%51.95%20.88%

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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Tractor Supply
1 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60
Ulta Beauty
1 Sell rating(s)
11 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

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.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Tractor Supply
30 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Ulta Beauty
21 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Tractor Supply beats Ulta Beauty on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ULTA vs. The Competition

MetricUlta BeautyRetail stores IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$18.27B$3.94B$25.06B$8.39B
Dividend YieldN/A3.66%169.81%4.10%
P/E Ratio16.206.6424.1819.71
Price / Sales1.624.963.96117.54
Price / Cash11.607.8519.4134.62
Price / Book8.622.786.114.50
Net Income$1.29B$204.42M$784.05M$248.18M
7 Day Performance-1.70%-3.73%-1.69%0.23%
1 Month Performance6.89%11.38%9.41%12.39%
1 Year Performance6.98%-22.94%7.62%7.07%

Ulta Beauty Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ULTA
Ulta Beauty
3.5612 of 5 stars
$410.30
+1.4%
$423.33
+3.2%
+6.0%$18.51B$11.30B16.4140,500Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
TSCO
Tractor Supply
4.64 of 5 stars
$52.81
-0.3%
$58.02
+9.9%
-12.4%$28.00B$14.96B25.8949,000Positive News
DKS
DICK'S Sporting Goods
4.9841 of 5 stars
$183.23
-0.4%
$229.47
+25.2%
-6.7%$14.63B$13.44B13.1050,800Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
FIVE
Five Below
3.5064 of 5 stars
$108.77
+2.1%
$97.50
-10.4%
-17.3%$5.99B$3.88B22.4320,200Positive News
Analyst Forecast
SIG
Signet Jewelers
3.822 of 5 stars
$62.02
-6.3%
$79.67
+28.5%
-37.0%$2.66B$6.70B7.1430,900Positive News
WINA
Winmark
1.3798 of 5 stars
$422.99
-0.4%
$445.00
+5.2%
+14.0%$1.49B$83.10M38.8480Positive News
SBH
Sally Beauty
3.9217 of 5 stars
$9.04
-1.4%
$12.70
+40.5%
-19.1%$912.08M$3.70B5.4129,000Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
ODP
ODP
4.5955 of 5 stars
$17.53
-3.8%
$28.00
+59.7%
-58.8%$527.34M$6.82B-19.2626,000Positive News
Gap Down
HZO
MarineMax
4.4827 of 5 stars
$23.18
-1.1%
$38.50
+66.1%
-19.2%$497.74M$2.42B9.743,410Positive News
Gap Down
BGFV
Big 5 Sporting Goods
0.0764 of 5 stars
$1.28
-6.3%
N/A-64.0%$29.14M$777.69M-0.498,700
JD
JD.com
4.9796 of 5 stars
$33.58
+0.1%
$47.42
+41.2%
+1.1%$52.96B$1.20T10.63385,400

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This page (NASDAQ:ULTA) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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