DKS vs. WBA, BBY, EXPE, DPZ, DRI, WSM, YUMC, BURL, KMX, and CASY
Should you be buying DICK'S Sporting Goods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DICK'S Sporting Goods include Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Best Buy (BBY), Expedia Group (EXPE), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Williams-Sonoma (WSM), Yum China (YUMC), Burlington Stores (BURL), CarMax (KMX), and Casey's General Stores (CASY). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) and DICK'S Sporting Goods (NYSE:DKS) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
DICK'S Sporting Goods received 281 more outperform votes than Walgreens Boots Alliance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.46% of users gave DICK'S Sporting Goods an outperform vote while only 66.23% of users gave Walgreens Boots Alliance an outperform vote.
Walgreens Boots Alliance has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DICK'S Sporting Goods has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Walgreens Boots Alliance currently has a consensus target price of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 17.48%. DICK'S Sporting Goods has a consensus target price of $205.95, suggesting a potential downside of 8.00%. Given DICK'S Sporting Goods' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Walgreens Boots Alliance is more favorable than DICK'S Sporting Goods.
58.6% of Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of DICK'S Sporting Goods shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.4% of Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.8% of DICK'S Sporting Goods shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Walgreens Boots Alliance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. DICK'S Sporting Goods pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Walgreens Boots Alliance pays out 151.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. DICK'S Sporting Goods pays out 32.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DICK'S Sporting Goods has raised its dividend for 9 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Walgreens Boots Alliance had 26 more articles in the media than DICK'S Sporting Goods. MarketBeat recorded 57 mentions for Walgreens Boots Alliance and 31 mentions for DICK'S Sporting Goods. Walgreens Boots Alliance's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat DICK'S Sporting Goods' score of 0.24 indicating that DICK'S Sporting Goods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DICK'S Sporting Goods has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Walgreens Boots Alliance. DICK'S Sporting Goods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Walgreens Boots Alliance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DICK'S Sporting Goods has a net margin of 8.06% compared to DICK'S Sporting Goods' net margin of 0.40%. Walgreens Boots Alliance's return on equity of 42.99% beat DICK'S Sporting Goods' return on equity.
Summary
DICK'S Sporting Goods beats Walgreens Boots Alliance on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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