BBY vs. AMZN, COST, SHOO, DKS, HD, LOW, TGT, WMT, GME, and RAY
Should you be buying Best Buy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Best Buy include Amazon.com (AMZN), Costco Wholesale (COST), Steven Madden (SHOO), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Home Depot (HD), Lowe's Companies (LOW), Target (TGT), Walmart (WMT), GameStop (GME), and Raytech (RAY).
Best Buy vs. Its Competitors
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment and dividends.
Amazon.com has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Best Buy has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Amazon.com currently has a consensus target price of $262.45, suggesting a potential upside of 17.85%. Best Buy has a consensus target price of $85.72, suggesting a potential upside of 24.27%. Given Best Buy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Best Buy is more favorable than Amazon.com.
72.2% of Amazon.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Best Buy shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.7% of Amazon.com shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Best Buy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Amazon.com has higher revenue and earnings than Best Buy. Best Buy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amazon.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Amazon.com has a net margin of 10.54% compared to Best Buy's net margin of 2.13%. Best Buy's return on equity of 46.40% beat Amazon.com's return on equity.
In the previous week, Amazon.com had 241 more articles in the media than Best Buy. MarketBeat recorded 261 mentions for Amazon.com and 20 mentions for Best Buy. Best Buy's average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Amazon.com's score of 0.90 indicating that Best Buy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Amazon.com beats Best Buy on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BBY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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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This page (NYSE:BBY) was last updated on 8/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
