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ULTA vs. ARHS, CASY, FIVE, BBW, SBH, TGT, TSCO, DKS, SIG, and WINA

Should you be buying Ulta Beauty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ulta Beauty include Arhaus (ARHS), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Five Below (FIVE), Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), Sally Beauty (SBH), Target (TGT), Tractor Supply (TSCO), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Signet Jewelers (SIG), and Winmark (WINA). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.

Ulta Beauty vs. Its Competitors

Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ:ULTA) and Arhaus (NASDAQ:ARHS) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.

Ulta Beauty has higher revenue and earnings than Arhaus. Ulta Beauty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arhaus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ulta Beauty$11.30B2.00$1.20B$25.6019.64
Arhaus$1.27B1.03$68.55M$0.4122.63

Ulta Beauty has a net margin of 10.45% compared to Arhaus' net margin of 4.53%. Ulta Beauty's return on equity of 49.73% beat Arhaus' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ulta Beauty10.45% 49.73% 20.15%
Arhaus 4.53%17.36%4.72%

90.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.9% of Arhaus shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Arhaus shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Ulta Beauty presently has a consensus price target of $465.04, suggesting a potential downside of 7.50%. Arhaus has a consensus price target of $10.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.15%. Given Arhaus' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Arhaus is more favorable than Ulta Beauty.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ulta Beauty
1 Sell rating(s)
11 Hold rating(s)
13 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.48
Arhaus
0 Sell rating(s)
11 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.27

In the previous week, Ulta Beauty had 24 more articles in the media than Arhaus. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Ulta Beauty and 1 mentions for Arhaus. Ulta Beauty's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Arhaus' score of 0.67 indicating that Ulta Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Ulta Beauty
22 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Arhaus
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Ulta Beauty has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arhaus has a beta of 2.56, meaning that its stock price is 156% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Ulta Beauty beats Arhaus on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ULTA vs. The Competition

MetricUlta BeautyRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$22.36B$11.64B$26.64B$9.44B
Dividend YieldN/A2.25%177.09%4.02%
P/E Ratio19.6415.5830.6719.90
Price / Sales2.001.736.1585.31
Price / Cash15.719.9648.3358.29
Price / Book9.374.045.765.67
Net Income$1.20B$608.19M$880.44M$258.18M
7 Day Performance3.64%5.32%4.20%2.81%
1 Month Performance6.61%9.85%8.60%13.53%
1 Year Performance29.14%8.55%27.16%17.68%

Ulta Beauty Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ULTA
Ulta Beauty
3.8478 of 5 stars
$502.74
+1.1%
$465.04
-7.5%
+28.4%$22.36B$11.30B19.6458,000Positive News
ARHS
Arhaus
3.1591 of 5 stars
$8.79
-4.6%
$10.50
+19.5%
-43.0%$1.24B$1.29B21.442,550High Trading Volume
CASY
Casey's General Stores
4.5219 of 5 stars
$523.28
+1.3%
$465.25
-11.1%
+38.1%$19.46B$15.94B35.7449,272Positive News
FIVE
Five Below
3.2004 of 5 stars
$134.31
+3.7%
$113.30
-15.6%
+77.1%$7.40B$3.88B28.1623,200Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
BBW
Build-A-Bear Workshop
2.4966 of 5 stars
$51.34
+3.1%
$51.33
0.0%
+108.2%$678.15M$510.07M12.345,100Positive News
SBH
Sally Beauty
3.2236 of 5 stars
$10.09
+2.7%
$12.63
+25.2%
-10.9%$1.02B$3.72B5.6727,000Positive News
TGT
Target
4.6731 of 5 stars
$104.97
+0.7%
$116.70
+11.2%
-29.3%$47.69B$106.57B11.53440,000Analyst Forecast
TSCO
Tractor Supply
4.6992 of 5 stars
$58.04
+2.2%
$58.02
0.0%
+8.8%$30.77B$14.88B28.8252,000Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
DKS
DICK'S Sporting Goods
4.8205 of 5 stars
$208.87
-0.5%
$219.56
+5.1%
+4.1%$16.72B$13.60B14.9456,100Positive News
SIG
Signet Jewelers
2.9675 of 5 stars
$80.99
+1.8%
$87.14
+7.6%
+1.4%$3.33B$6.73B88.0427,595
WINA
Winmark
1.0272 of 5 stars
$373.04
+0.9%
N/A-7.3%$1.32B$83.10M33.3480

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This page (NASDAQ:ULTA) was last updated on 7/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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