WBA vs. CVNA, YUMC, BBY, DKS, DPZ, EXPE, WSM, DRI, CASY, and BURL
Should you be buying Walgreens Boots Alliance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Walgreens Boots Alliance include Carvana (CVNA), Yum China (YUMC), Best Buy (BBY), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Expedia Group (EXPE), Williams-Sonoma (WSM), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Casey's General Stores (CASY), and Burlington Stores (BURL). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) and Carvana (NYSE:CVNA) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Walgreens Boots Alliance has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carvana has a beta of 3.32, meaning that its stock price is 232% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Walgreens Boots Alliance presently has a consensus target price of $24.36, indicating a potential upside of 37.61%. Carvana has a consensus target price of $55.87, indicating a potential downside of 33.77%. Given Walgreens Boots Alliance's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Walgreens Boots Alliance is more favorable than Carvana.
Carvana has a net margin of 4.18% compared to Walgreens Boots Alliance's net margin of -4.18%. Walgreens Boots Alliance's return on equity of 12.11% beat Carvana's return on equity.
58.6% of Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.7% of Carvana shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.4% of Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of Carvana shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Walgreens Boots Alliance received 644 more outperform votes than Carvana when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.10% of users gave Walgreens Boots Alliance an outperform vote while only 58.34% of users gave Carvana an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Carvana had 6 more articles in the media than Walgreens Boots Alliance. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Carvana and 18 mentions for Walgreens Boots Alliance. Walgreens Boots Alliance's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Carvana's score of 0.43 indicating that Walgreens Boots Alliance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Carvana has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Walgreens Boots Alliance. Walgreens Boots Alliance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carvana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Walgreens Boots Alliance beats Carvana on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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