BBY vs. AMZN, COST, DKS, HD, LOW, TGT, WMT, GME, RAY, and TAIT
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), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Home Depot (HD), Lowe's Companies (LOW), Target (TGT), Walmart (WMT), GameStop (GME), Raytech (RAY), and Taitron Components (TAIT).
Best Buy vs. Its Competitors
Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and valuation.
Best Buy has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amazon.com has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 10.14% 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.
81.0% of Best Buy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Amazon.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Best Buy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of Amazon.com shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Amazon.com had 255 more articles in the media than Best Buy. MarketBeat recorded 265 mentions for Amazon.com and 10 mentions for Best Buy. Best Buy's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Amazon.com's score of 0.92 indicating that Best Buy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Best Buy presently has a consensus price target of $86.11, indicating a potential upside of 21.97%. Amazon.com has a consensus price target of $245.60, indicating a potential upside of 9.90%. Given Best Buy's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Best Buy is more favorable than Amazon.com.
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 7/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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