GAP (GAP) Competitors

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

Do analysts rate CDW or GAP?

CDW presently has a consensus target price of $202.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.89%. GAP has a consensus target price of $25.47, indicating a potential upside of 15.89%. Given CDW's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe CDW is more favorable than GAP.

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	1 Sell rating(s)	9 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.31

Which has more risk & volatility, CDW or GAP?

CDW has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GAP has a beta of 2.09, suggesting that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of CDW or GAP?

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

Is CDW or GAP a better dividend stock?

CDW pays an annual dividend of $2.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. GAP pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. CDW pays out 31.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GAP pays out 28.2% 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.

Which has better valuation & earnings, CDW or GAP?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CDW	$21.00B	1.03	$1.08B	$8.05	20.42
GAP	$15.09B	0.54	$844M	$2.34	9.39

Is CDW or GAP more profitable?

GAP has a net margin of 5.86% compared to CDW's net margin of 4.92%. CDW's return on equity of 53.63% beat GAP's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CDW	4.92%	53.63%	8.58%
GAP	5.86%	27.04%	7.49%

Does the media prefer CDW or GAP?

In the previous week, GAP had 15 more articles in the media than CDW. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for GAP and 9 mentions for CDW. CDW's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat GAP's score of 0.38 indicating that CDW is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CDW	3 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
GAP	5 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	12 Neutral mention(s)	3 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

CDW beats GAP on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.