DDS vs. M, KSS, BURL, LEVI, SFM, W, CAVA, AN, ANF, and NSIT
Should you be buying Dillard's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dillard's include Macy's (M), Kohl's (KSS), Burlington Stores (BURL), Levi Strauss & Co. (LEVI), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), Wayfair (W), CAVA Group (CAVA), AutoNation (AN), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), and Insight Enterprises (NSIT). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Macy's (NYSE:M) and Dillard's (NYSE:DDS) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Macy's received 501 more outperform votes than Dillard's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.54% of users gave Dillard's an outperform vote while only 59.90% of users gave Macy's an outperform vote.
Macy's has a beta of 2.14, suggesting that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dillard's has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Macy's presently has a consensus target price of $17.45, indicating a potential downside of 17.78%. Dillard's has a consensus target price of $305.67, indicating a potential downside of 28.41%. Given Dillard's' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Macy's is more favorable than Dillard's.
82.7% of Macy's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Dillard's shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Macy's shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.5% of Dillard's shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Macy's pays an annual dividend of $0.69 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Dillard's pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Macy's pays out 186.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Dillard's pays out 2.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Macy's has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Dillard's has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Macy's is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Macy's had 11 more articles in the media than Dillard's. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Macy's and 11 mentions for Dillard's. Macy's' average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Dillard's' score of 0.44 indicating that Dillard's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dillard's has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Macy's. Dillard's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Macy's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dillard's has a net margin of 10.94% compared to Dillard's' net margin of 0.45%. Macy's' return on equity of 40.90% beat Dillard's' return on equity.
Summary
Macy's beats Dillard's on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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