Domino's Pizza (DPZ) Competitors

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

Is DPZ or DKS a better dividend stock?

Domino's Pizza pays an annual dividend of $6.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. DICK'S Sporting Goods pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Domino's Pizza pays out 41.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DICK'S Sporting Goods pays out 36.1% 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. DICK'S Sporting Goods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has better valuation & earnings, DPZ or DKS?

DICK'S Sporting Goods has higher revenue and earnings than Domino's Pizza. DICK'S Sporting Goods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Domino's Pizza, 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
Domino's Pizza	$4.48B	3.89	$519.12M	$14.67	34.14
DICK'S Sporting Goods	$12.98B	1.32	$1.05B	$12.18	17.02

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in DPZ or DKS?

94.6% of Domino's Pizza shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of DICK'S Sporting Goods shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Domino's Pizza shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.8% 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.

Does the media favor DPZ or DKS?

In the previous week, DICK'S Sporting Goods had 4 more articles in the media than Domino's Pizza. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for DICK'S Sporting Goods and 11 mentions for Domino's Pizza. Domino's Pizza's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat DICK'S Sporting Goods' score of 0.38 indicating that Domino's Pizza is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Domino's Pizza	5 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
DICK'S Sporting Goods	7 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community favor DPZ or DKS?

DICK'S Sporting Goods received 556 more outperform votes than Domino's Pizza when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.44% of users gave DICK'S Sporting Goods an outperform vote while only 62.23% of users gave Domino's Pizza an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Domino's Pizza	Outperform Votes 883 62.23%	Underperform Votes 536 37.77%
DICK'S Sporting Goods	Outperform Votes 1439 70.44%	Underperform Votes 604 29.56%

Do analysts prefer DPZ or DKS?

Domino's Pizza currently has a consensus price target of $460.90, suggesting a potential downside of 7.78%. DICK'S Sporting Goods has a consensus price target of $208.64, suggesting a potential upside of 0.77%. Given DICK'S Sporting Goods' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe DICK'S Sporting Goods is more favorable than Domino's Pizza.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Domino's Pizza	1 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	17 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
DICK'S Sporting Goods	0 Sell rating(s)	11 Hold rating(s)	11 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Is DPZ or DKS more profitable?

Domino's Pizza has a net margin of 11.59% compared to DICK'S Sporting Goods' net margin of 8.06%. DICK'S Sporting Goods' return on equity of 42.99% beat Domino's Pizza's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Domino's Pizza	11.59%	-12.56%	31.79%
DICK'S Sporting Goods	8.06%	42.99%	11.97%

Which has more risk and volatility, DPZ or DKS?

Domino's Pizza has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DICK'S Sporting Goods has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

DICK'S Sporting Goods beats Domino's Pizza on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.