HD vs. AMZN, COST, SBUX, TSLA, BLDR, DIS, LOW, NKE, TGT, and WMT
Should you be buying Home Depot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Home Depot include Amazon.com (AMZN), Costco Wholesale (COST), Starbucks (SBUX), Tesla (TSLA), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Walt Disney (DIS), Lowe's Companies (LOW), NIKE (NKE), Target (TGT), and Walmart (WMT).
Home Depot vs. Its Competitors
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Home Depot (NYSE:HD) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
In the previous week, Amazon.com had 171 more articles in the media than Home Depot. MarketBeat recorded 254 mentions for Amazon.com and 83 mentions for Home Depot. Home Depot's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Amazon.com's score of 1.12 indicating that Home Depot is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
72.2% of Amazon.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Home Depot shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.7% of Amazon.com shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Home Depot shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Amazon.com presently has a consensus target price of $262.87, suggesting a potential upside of 15.22%. Home Depot has a consensus target price of $432.52, suggesting a potential upside of 2.17%. Given Amazon.com's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Amazon.com is more favorable than Home Depot.
Amazon.com has a net margin of 10.54% compared to Home Depot's net margin of 8.86%. Home Depot's return on equity of 193.99% beat Amazon.com's return on equity.
Amazon.com pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Home Depot pays an annual dividend of $9.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Amazon.com pays out 3.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Home Depot pays out 62.5% 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. Home Depot has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Home Depot is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Amazon.com has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Home Depot has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Amazon.com has higher revenue and earnings than Home Depot. Home Depot is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amazon.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Amazon.com beats Home Depot on 14 of the 20 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 HD and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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This page (NYSE:HD) was last updated on 9/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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