DKS vs. TSCO, ULTA, FIVE, SIG, ODP, WINA, SBH, HIBB, HZO, and BGFV
Should you be buying DICK'S Sporting Goods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DICK'S Sporting Goods include Tractor Supply (TSCO), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), Five Below (FIVE), Signet Jewelers (SIG), ODP (ODP), Winmark (WINA), Sally Beauty (SBH), Hibbett (HIBB), MarineMax (HZO), and Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV). These companies are all part of the "specialty stores" industry.
Tractor Supply (NASDAQ:TSCO) and DICK'S Sporting Goods (NYSE:DKS) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Tractor Supply currently has a consensus price target of $256.58, indicating a potential downside of 2.26%. DICK'S Sporting Goods has a consensus price target of $237.09, indicating a potential upside of 13.44%. Given Tractor Supply's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe DICK'S Sporting Goods is more favorable than Tractor Supply.
Tractor Supply pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. DICK'S Sporting Goods pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Tractor Supply pays out 42.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DICK'S Sporting Goods pays out 36.4% 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 15 consecutive years. DICK'S Sporting Goods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
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. 0.2% of Tractor Supply shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 32.0% of DICK'S Sporting Goods shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Tractor Supply had 35 more articles in the media than DICK'S Sporting Goods. MarketBeat recorded 48 mentions for Tractor Supply and 13 mentions for DICK'S Sporting Goods. Tractor Supply's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat DICK'S Sporting Goods' score of 0.44 indicating that DICK'S Sporting Goods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DICK'S Sporting Goods received 433 more outperform votes than Tractor Supply when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.30% of users gave DICK'S Sporting Goods an outperform vote while only 69.97% of users gave Tractor Supply an outperform vote.
Tractor Supply has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DICK'S Sporting Goods has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
DICK'S Sporting Goods has a net margin of 7.73% compared to DICK'S Sporting Goods' net margin of 7.66%. DICK'S Sporting Goods' return on equity of 52.99% beat Tractor Supply's return on equity.
Summary
DICK'S Sporting Goods beats Tractor Supply on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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