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GAP vs. CDW, BURL, SFM, CHWY, BJ, ACI, FND, MUSA, OLLI, and VIPS

Should you be buying GAP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GAP include CDW (CDW), Burlington Stores (BURL), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), Chewy (CHWY), BJ's Wholesale Club (BJ), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Floor & Decor (FND), Murphy USA (MUSA), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), and Vipshop (VIPS). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.

GAP vs. Its Competitors

CDW (NASDAQ:CDW) and GAP (NYSE:GAP) are both retail companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

CDW currently has a consensus target price of $208.50, indicating a potential upside of 15.30%. GAP has a consensus target price of $28.53, indicating a potential upside of 40.66%. Given GAP's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe GAP is more favorable than CDW.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
CDW
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
GAP
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.53

CDW pays an annual dividend of $2.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. GAP pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. CDW pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GAP pays out 28.6% 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. CDW has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years and GAP has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. GAP is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

CDW has higher revenue and earnings than GAP. GAP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CDW, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
CDW$21.33B1.12$1.08B$8.0722.41
GAP$15.09B0.51$844M$2.318.78

CDW has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GAP has a beta of 2.14, indicating that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500.

GAP has a net margin of 5.80% compared to CDW's net margin of 5.10%. CDW's return on equity of 54.90% beat GAP's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
CDW5.10% 54.90% 8.75%
GAP 5.80%27.86%7.51%

In the previous week, GAP had 9 more articles in the media than CDW. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for GAP and 18 mentions for CDW. CDW's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat GAP's score of 0.09 indicating that CDW is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
CDW
10 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
GAP
3 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
12 Neutral mention(s)
6 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

93.2% of CDW shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.8% of GAP shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of CDW shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.6% of GAP shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

CDW beats GAP on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding GAP and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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GAP vs. The Competition

MetricGAPRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.64B$7.60B$26.94B$21.05B
Dividend Yield3.19%2.91%177.05%3.62%
P/E Ratio8.7871.9730.9927.79
Price / Sales0.511.286.1271.63
Price / Cash5.8017.5450.8922.61
Price / Book2.353.055.674.67
Net Income$844M$372.42M$880.44M$993.85M
7 Day Performance-0.19%4.43%2.38%1.16%
1 Month Performance-5.90%9.47%6.76%4.99%
1 Year PerformanceN/A2.75%27.56%12.52%

GAP Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GAP
GAP
4.4173 of 5 stars
$20.29
-1.7%
$28.53
+40.7%
N/A$7.64B$15.09B8.7882,000Analyst Forecast
CDW
CDW
4.6244 of 5 stars
$177.70
+0.2%
$211.57
+19.1%
-21.2%$23.40B$21.33B22.0215,100Upcoming Earnings
BURL
Burlington Stores
3.9482 of 5 stars
$256.04
+2.5%
$316.36
+23.6%
+9.7%$16.15B$10.63B31.4277,532Analyst Forecast
SFM
Sprouts Farmers Market
3.5106 of 5 stars
$164.54
+3.0%
$167.79
+2.0%
+94.8%$16.10B$7.72B36.9835,000News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
CHWY
Chewy
3.4513 of 5 stars
$37.77
-0.6%
$43.89
+16.2%
+49.4%$15.68B$11.86B42.4418,000
BJ
BJ's Wholesale Club
2.8339 of 5 stars
$107.56
+1.0%
$116.12
+8.0%
+15.0%$14.20B$20.50B25.0133,000Analyst Forecast
ACI
Albertsons Companies
4.4529 of 5 stars
$22.12
-0.2%
$24.21
+9.5%
+3.0%$12.73B$80.39B13.48195,000Analyst Forecast
FND
Floor & Decor
3.479 of 5 stars
$82.31
-1.2%
$91.19
+10.8%
-13.2%$8.86B$4.46B43.5513,690News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
MUSA
Murphy USA
4.7 of 5 stars
$433.99
+2.2%
$526.29
+21.3%
-15.9%$8.58B$19.93B18.3017,200Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
OLLI
Ollie's Bargain Outlet
3.3331 of 5 stars
$128.24
+1.0%
$125.21
-2.4%
+33.2%$7.87B$2.27B39.4612,800Analyst Forecast
VIPS
Vipshop
3.367 of 5 stars
$15.14
-0.4%
$15.58
+3.0%
+21.8%$7.76B$14.85B7.9214,966News Coverage

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This page (NYSE:GAP) was last updated on 7/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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