BJ vs. COST, WMT, JD, CDW, BURL, CHWY, SFM, ACI, W, and FND
Should you be buying BJ's Wholesale Club stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BJ's Wholesale Club include Costco Wholesale (COST), Walmart (WMT), JD.com (JD), CDW (CDW), Burlington Stores (BURL), Chewy (CHWY), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Wayfair (W), and Floor & Decor (FND).
BJ's Wholesale Club vs. Its Competitors
BJ's Wholesale Club (NYSE:BJ) and Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST) are related large-cap companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.
BJ's Wholesale Club has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Costco Wholesale has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BJ's Wholesale Club currently has a consensus target price of $113.18, suggesting a potential upside of 14.91%. Costco Wholesale has a consensus target price of $1,056.67, suggesting a potential upside of 9.17%. Given BJ's Wholesale Club's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe BJ's Wholesale Club is more favorable than Costco Wholesale.
98.6% of BJ's Wholesale Club shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.5% of Costco Wholesale shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of BJ's Wholesale Club shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Costco Wholesale shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Costco Wholesale had 75 more articles in the media than BJ's Wholesale Club. MarketBeat recorded 106 mentions for Costco Wholesale and 31 mentions for BJ's Wholesale Club. Costco Wholesale's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat BJ's Wholesale Club's score of 1.00 indicating that Costco Wholesale is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Costco Wholesale has a net margin of 2.92% compared to BJ's Wholesale Club's net margin of 2.77%. Costco Wholesale's return on equity of 30.48% beat BJ's Wholesale Club's return on equity.
Costco Wholesale has higher revenue and earnings than BJ's Wholesale Club. BJ's Wholesale Club is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Costco Wholesale, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Costco Wholesale beats BJ's Wholesale Club on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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:BJ) was last updated on 9/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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