URBN vs. AEO, BKE, ANF, LE, PLCE, GPS, JWN, TRIP, GMS, and RUSHA
Should you be buying Urban Outfitters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Urban Outfitters include American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Buckle (BKE), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), Lands' End (LE), Children's Place (PLCE), GAP (GPS), Nordstrom (JWN), Tripadvisor (TRIP), GMS (GMS), and Rush Enterprises (RUSHA). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE:AEO) and Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability and institutional ownership.
Urban Outfitters has lower revenue, but higher earnings than American Eagle Outfitters. Urban Outfitters is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Eagle Outfitters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Eagle Outfitters presently has a consensus price target of $22.18, suggesting a potential downside of 8.72%. Urban Outfitters has a consensus price target of $39.67, suggesting a potential downside of 0.81%. Given American Eagle Outfitters' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Urban Outfitters is more favorable than American Eagle Outfitters.
Urban Outfitters has a net margin of 5.58% compared to Urban Outfitters' net margin of 3.23%. Urban Outfitters' return on equity of 17.76% beat American Eagle Outfitters' return on equity.
97.3% of American Eagle Outfitters shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.6% of Urban Outfitters shares are held by institutional investors. 7.5% of American Eagle Outfitters shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.8% of Urban Outfitters shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, American Eagle Outfitters had 10 more articles in the media than Urban Outfitters. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for American Eagle Outfitters and 2 mentions for Urban Outfitters. American Eagle Outfitters' average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Urban Outfitters' score of 0.52 indicating that Urban Outfitters is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Urban Outfitters received 125 more outperform votes than American Eagle Outfitters when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.36% of users gave American Eagle Outfitters an outperform vote while only 59.90% of users gave Urban Outfitters an outperform vote.
American Eagle Outfitters has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urban Outfitters has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
American Eagle Outfitters beats Urban Outfitters on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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