BJ vs. TTC, PSO, MTN, BIRK, SKX, WYNN, CZR, WSC, LNW, and NCLH
Should you be buying BJ's Wholesale Club stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BJ's Wholesale Club include Toro (TTC), Pearson (PSO), Vail Resorts (MTN), Birkenstock (BIRK), Skechers U.S.A. (SKX), Wynn Resorts (WYNN), Caesars Entertainment (CZR), WillScot Mobile Mini (WSC), Light & Wonder (LNW), and Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
BJ's Wholesale Club (NYSE:BJ) and Toro (NYSE:TTC) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
BJ's Wholesale Club currently has a consensus price target of $71.31, suggesting a potential upside of 8.18%. Toro has a consensus price target of $102.80, suggesting a potential upside of 22.05%. Given Toro's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Toro is more favorable than BJ's Wholesale Club.
Toro received 250 more outperform votes than BJ's Wholesale Club when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.35% of users gave Toro an outperform vote while only 54.43% of users gave BJ's Wholesale Club an outperform vote.
98.6% of BJ's Wholesale Club shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of Toro shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of BJ's Wholesale Club shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Toro shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
BJ's Wholesale Club has higher revenue and earnings than Toro. BJ's Wholesale Club is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Toro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BJ's Wholesale Club has a beta of 0.32, indicating that its share price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toro has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Toro had 3 more articles in the media than BJ's Wholesale Club. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Toro and 9 mentions for BJ's Wholesale Club. BJ's Wholesale Club's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Toro's score of 0.22 indicating that BJ's Wholesale Club is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Toro has a net margin of 7.95% compared to BJ's Wholesale Club's net margin of 2.61%. BJ's Wholesale Club's return on equity of 43.26% beat Toro's return on equity.
Summary
Toro beats BJ's Wholesale Club on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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