BBY vs. GME, CONN, IZM, CVS, TGT, CMG, ORLY, AZO, ROST, and JD
Should you be buying Best Buy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Best Buy include GameStop (GME), Conn's (CONN), ICZOOM Group (IZM), CVS Health (CVS), Target (TGT), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), AutoZone (AZO), Ross Stores (ROST), and JD.com (JD).
Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) and GameStop (NYSE:GME) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
81.0% of Best Buy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.2% of GameStop shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Best Buy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of GameStop shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Best Buy has higher revenue and earnings than GameStop. Best Buy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GameStop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Best Buy presently has a consensus price target of $90.87, indicating a potential upside of 4.06%. GameStop has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential downside of 54.43%. Given Best Buy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Best Buy is more favorable than GameStop.
In the previous week, Best Buy had 8 more articles in the media than GameStop. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Best Buy and 14 mentions for GameStop. Best Buy's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat GameStop's score of -0.02 indicating that Best Buy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Best Buy received 244 more outperform votes than GameStop when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.86% of users gave Best Buy an outperform vote while only 73.68% of users gave GameStop an outperform vote.
Best Buy has a net margin of 2.90% compared to GameStop's net margin of 0.51%. Best Buy's return on equity of 47.56% beat GameStop's return on equity.
Best Buy has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GameStop has a beta of -0.1, suggesting that its share price is 110% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Best Buy beats GameStop on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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