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Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) Competitors

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$11.18 -0.05 (-0.45%)
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WBA vs. CVS, GRDN, PETS, YI, CJJD, ONON, EBAY, TSCO, DRI, and QSR

Should you be buying Walgreens Boots Alliance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Walgreens Boots Alliance include CVS Health (CVS), Guardian Pharmacy Services (GRDN), PetMed Express (PETS), 111 (YI), China Jo-Jo Drugstores (CJJD), ON (ONON), eBay (EBAY), Tractor Supply (TSCO), Darden Restaurants (DRI), and Restaurant Brands International (QSR).

Walgreens Boots Alliance vs.

CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) and Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, profitability and community ranking.

CVS Health received 278 more outperform votes than Walgreens Boots Alliance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.56% of users gave CVS Health an outperform vote while only 64.83% of users gave Walgreens Boots Alliance an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
CVS HealthOutperform Votes
1441
75.56%
Underperform Votes
466
24.44%
Walgreens Boots AllianceOutperform Votes
1163
64.83%
Underperform Votes
631
35.17%

CVS Health presently has a consensus target price of $75.27, indicating a potential upside of 20.88%. Walgreens Boots Alliance has a consensus target price of $10.59, indicating a potential downside of 5.56%. Given CVS Health's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe CVS Health is more favorable than Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
CVS Health
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.90
Walgreens Boots Alliance
4 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.83

CVS Health has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Walgreens Boots Alliance has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, CVS Health had 21 more articles in the media than Walgreens Boots Alliance. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for CVS Health and 19 mentions for Walgreens Boots Alliance. Walgreens Boots Alliance's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat CVS Health's score of 1.19 indicating that Walgreens Boots Alliance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
CVS Health
33 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Walgreens Boots Alliance
12 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

CVS Health pays an annual dividend of $2.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Walgreens Boots Alliance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. CVS Health pays out 63.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Walgreens Boots Alliance pays out -14.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. CVS Health has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Walgreens Boots Alliance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

80.7% of CVS Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of CVS Health shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

CVS Health has a net margin of 1.24% compared to Walgreens Boots Alliance's net margin of -5.87%. Walgreens Boots Alliance's return on equity of 17.61% beat CVS Health's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
CVS Health1.24% 9.11% 2.71%
Walgreens Boots Alliance -5.87%17.61%2.89%

CVS Health has higher revenue and earnings than Walgreens Boots Alliance. Walgreens Boots Alliance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CVS Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
CVS Health$378.96B0.21$4.61B$4.1914.86
Walgreens Boots Alliance$151.95B0.06-$8.64B-$6.69-1.68

Summary

CVS Health beats Walgreens Boots Alliance on 15 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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WBA vs. The Competition

MetricWalgreens Boots AllianceDrug stores & proprietary stores IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$9.70B$10.01B$24.95B$8.40B
Dividend Yield9.35%6.80%169.79%4.11%
P/E Ratio-1.1079.9824.1919.74
Price / Sales0.060.303.96117.36
Price / Cash1.8367.5019.4134.62
Price / Book0.810.796.134.51
Net Income-$8.64B-$585.83M$784.05M$248.18M
7 Day Performance0.76%-0.58%-1.01%1.07%
1 Month Performance3.17%2.46%11.82%14.96%
1 Year Performance-32.76%-13.60%7.11%6.70%

Walgreens Boots Alliance Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WBA
Walgreens Boots Alliance
3.3816 of 5 stars
$11.18
-0.4%
$10.59
-5.3%
-37.0%$9.67B$151.95B-1.09325,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
CVS
CVS Health
4.9909 of 5 stars
$62.72
+0.3%
$75.27
+20.0%
+11.0%$79.39B$378.96B17.15300,000Positive News
GRDN
Guardian Pharmacy Services
0.9544 of 5 stars
$26.45
+7.1%
$25.67
-3.0%
N/A$1.67B$1.23B0.003,200News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
PETS
PetMed Express
0.4961 of 5 stars
$3.92
+1.4%
$3.35
-14.4%
-13.0%$80.87M$247.01M391.89210
YI
111
N/A$7.97
+1.6%
N/A-39.8%$68.12M$14.40B-1.992,110News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Up
CJJD
China Jo-Jo Drugstores
N/AN/AN/AN/A$10.05M$147.13M0.00980Gap Down
ONON
ON
2.6715 of 5 stars
$60.06
+0.3%
$62.45
+4.0%
+55.3%$37.78B$2.32B139.541,160
EBAY
eBay
4.5964 of 5 stars
$72.17
+0.5%
$67.42
-6.6%
+41.7%$33.27B$10.31B18.1311,600
TSCO
Tractor Supply
4.5114 of 5 stars
$53.18
+0.4%
$58.02
+9.1%
-9.2%$28.19B$14.96B26.0649,000Positive News
Dividend Cut
DRI
Darden Restaurants
4.2957 of 5 stars
$209.15
-1.2%
$201.38
-3.7%
+36.2%$24.47B$11.76B23.95179,000News Coverage
Positive News
QSR
Restaurant Brands International
4.4213 of 5 stars
$71.42
+1.1%
$75.65
+5.9%
+1.0%$23.44B$8.78B22.496,400

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This page (NASDAQ:WBA) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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