WBA vs. CVS, GRDN, PETS, YI, CJJD, EBAY, ONON, 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), eBay (EBAY), ON (ONON), Tractor Supply (TSCO), Darden Restaurants (DRI), and Restaurant Brands International (QSR).
Walgreens Boots Alliance vs.
Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) and CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.
Walgreens Boots Alliance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. CVS Health pays an annual dividend of $2.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Walgreens Boots Alliance pays out -14.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CVS Health pays out 72.7% 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. Walgreens Boots Alliance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Walgreens Boots Alliance presently has a consensus target price of $10.59, suggesting a potential downside of 3.46%. CVS Health has a consensus target price of $71.94, suggesting a potential upside of 7.94%. Given CVS Health's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CVS Health is more favorable than Walgreens Boots Alliance.
CVS Health received 272 more outperform votes than Walgreens Boots Alliance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.53% of users gave CVS Health an outperform vote while only 64.94% of users gave Walgreens Boots Alliance an outperform vote.
58.6% of Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of CVS Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.5% of Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of CVS Health shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Walgreens Boots Alliance has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CVS Health has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CVS Health had 25 more articles in the media than Walgreens Boots Alliance. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for CVS Health and 19 mentions for Walgreens Boots Alliance. Walgreens Boots Alliance's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat CVS Health's score of 1.01 indicating that Walgreens Boots Alliance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
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.
Summary
CVS Health beats Walgreens Boots Alliance on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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