DKS vs. ASO, CASY, FIVE, ULTA, BURL, CPRI, SBH, WSM, TSCO, and SIG
Should you be buying DICK'S Sporting Goods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DICK'S Sporting Goods include Academy Sports and Outdoors (ASO), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Five Below (FIVE), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), Burlington Stores (BURL), Capri (CPRI), Sally Beauty (SBH), Williams-Sonoma (WSM), Tractor Supply (TSCO), and Signet Jewelers (SIG).
DICK'S Sporting Goods vs. Its Competitors
Academy Sports and Outdoors (NASDAQ:ASO) and DICK'S Sporting Goods (NYSE:DKS) are related companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation and earnings.
Academy Sports and Outdoors currently has a consensus price target of $57.53, indicating a potential upside of 4.31%. DICK'S Sporting Goods has a consensus price target of $221.50, indicating a potential downside of 2.11%. Given Academy Sports and Outdoors' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Academy Sports and Outdoors is more favorable than DICK'S Sporting Goods.
In the previous week, DICK'S Sporting Goods had 12 more articles in the media than Academy Sports and Outdoors. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for DICK'S Sporting Goods and 6 mentions for Academy Sports and Outdoors. Academy Sports and Outdoors' average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat DICK'S Sporting Goods' score of 1.03 indicating that Academy Sports and Outdoors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
89.8% of DICK'S Sporting Goods shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Academy Sports and Outdoors shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.6% of DICK'S Sporting Goods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Academy Sports and Outdoors has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DICK'S Sporting Goods has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DICK'S Sporting Goods has higher revenue and earnings than Academy Sports and Outdoors. Academy Sports and Outdoors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DICK'S Sporting Goods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Academy Sports and Outdoors pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. DICK'S Sporting Goods pays an annual dividend of $4.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Academy Sports and Outdoors pays out 9.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DICK'S Sporting Goods pays out 34.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Academy Sports and Outdoors has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and DICK'S Sporting Goods has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. DICK'S Sporting Goods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
DICK'S Sporting Goods has a net margin of 8.49% compared to Academy Sports and Outdoors' net margin of 6.55%. DICK'S Sporting Goods' return on equity of 38.06% beat Academy Sports and Outdoors' return on equity.
Summary
DICK'S Sporting Goods beats Academy Sports and Outdoors on 13 of the 18 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:DKS) was last updated on 8/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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