DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS) Competitors

Tractor Supply (NASDAQ:TSCO) and DICK'S Sporting Goods (NYSE:DKS) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and profitability.

Is TSCO or DKS more profitable?

DICK'S Sporting Goods has a net margin of 8.65% compared to Tractor Supply's net margin of 7.40%. Tractor Supply's return on equity of 49.01% beat DICK'S Sporting Goods' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tractor Supply	7.40%	49.01%	11.32%
DICK'S Sporting Goods	8.65%	42.00%	12.04%

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of TSCO or DKS?

98.7% of Tractor Supply shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of DICK'S Sporting Goods shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Tractor Supply shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.0% of DICK'S Sporting Goods shares are owned by company 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.

Which has more risk and volatility, TSCO or DKS?

Tractor Supply has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DICK'S Sporting Goods has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is TSCO or DKS a better dividend stock?

Tractor Supply pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. DICK'S Sporting Goods pays an annual dividend of $4.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Tractor Supply pays out 45.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DICK'S Sporting Goods pays out 34.5% 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. Tractor Supply has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years and DICK'S Sporting Goods has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. DICK'S Sporting Goods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the media refer more to TSCO or DKS?

In the previous week, Tractor Supply had 24 more articles in the media than DICK'S Sporting Goods. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for Tractor Supply and 17 mentions for DICK'S Sporting Goods. DICK'S Sporting Goods' average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Tractor Supply's score of 0.97 indicating that DICK'S Sporting Goods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Tractor Supply	26 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	2 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
DICK'S Sporting Goods	14 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do analysts prefer TSCO or DKS?

Tractor Supply presently has a consensus target price of $58.02, indicating a potential upside of 14.12%. DICK'S Sporting Goods has a consensus target price of $241.61, indicating a potential upside of 24.63%. Given DICK'S Sporting Goods' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe DICK'S Sporting Goods is more favorable than Tractor Supply.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Tractor Supply	1 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	11 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60
DICK'S Sporting Goods	0 Sell rating(s)	8 Hold rating(s)	11 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.58

Which has higher valuation and earnings, TSCO or DKS?

Tractor Supply has higher revenue and earnings than DICK'S Sporting Goods. DICK'S Sporting Goods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tractor Supply, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tractor Supply	$14.96B	1.81	$1.10B	$2.01	25.29
DICK'S Sporting Goods	$13.44B	1.15	$1.05B	$14.04	13.81

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer TSCO or DKS?

DICK'S Sporting Goods received 419 more outperform votes than Tractor Supply when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.78% of users gave DICK'S Sporting Goods an outperform vote while only 69.61% of users gave Tractor Supply an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Tractor Supply	Outperform Votes 1047 69.61%	Underperform Votes 457 30.39%
DICK'S Sporting Goods	Outperform Votes 1466 69.78%	Underperform Votes 635 30.22%

Summary

DICK'S Sporting Goods beats Tractor Supply on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.