DDS vs. M, JWN, KSS, BURL, BBY, QSR, BLDR, GPC, DRI, and DKS
Should you be buying Dillard's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dillard's include Macy's (M), Nordstrom (JWN), Kohl's (KSS), Burlington Stores (BURL), Best Buy (BBY), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Genuine Parts (GPC), Darden Restaurants (DRI), and DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Dillard's (NYSE:DDS) and Macy's (NYSE:M) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.
Dillard's pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Macy's pays an annual dividend of $0.69 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Dillard's pays out 2.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Macy's pays out 2,300.0% 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 has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Dillard's has a net margin of 9.94% compared to Macy's' net margin of 0.80%. Dillard's' return on equity of 34.29% beat Macy's' return on equity.
Dillard's has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Macy's has a beta of 2.11, suggesting that its stock price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500.
67.2% of Dillard's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Macy's shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.8% of Dillard's shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Macy's shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Macy's received 502 more outperform votes than Dillard's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.28% of users gave Dillard's an outperform vote while only 58.82% of users gave Macy's an outperform vote.
Dillard's has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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 currently has a consensus target price of $287.00, indicating a potential downside of 17.28%. Macy's has a consensus target price of $19.50, indicating a potential upside of 33.47%. Given Macy's' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Macy's is more favorable than Dillard's.
In the previous week, Macy's had 7 more articles in the media than Dillard's. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Macy's and 8 mentions for Dillard's. Dillard's' average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Macy's' score of 0.67 indicating that Dillard's is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Dillard's beats Macy's on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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