HD vs. LOW, BLDR, FND, JCTC, WMT, COST, BABA, MCD, BKNG, and PDD
Should you be buying Home Depot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Home Depot include Lowe's Companies (LOW), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Floor & Decor (FND), Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTC), Walmart (WMT), Costco Wholesale (COST), Alibaba Group (BABA), McDonald's (MCD), Booking (BKNG), and PDD (PDD). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Home Depot vs.
Lowe's Companies (NYSE:LOW) and Home Depot (NYSE:HD) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Home Depot had 71 more articles in the media than Lowe's Companies. MarketBeat recorded 127 mentions for Home Depot and 56 mentions for Lowe's Companies. Lowe's Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Home Depot's score of 0.89 indicating that Lowe's Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lowe's Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Home Depot pays an annual dividend of $9.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Lowe's Companies pays out 37.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Home Depot pays out 61.7% 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. Lowe's Companies has raised its dividend for 53 consecutive years and Home Depot has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years.
Home Depot received 314 more outperform votes than Lowe's Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.40% of users gave Home Depot an outperform vote while only 69.51% of users gave Lowe's Companies an outperform vote.
Lowe's Companies has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Home Depot has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Home Depot has higher revenue and earnings than Lowe's Companies. Lowe's Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home Depot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lowe's Companies presently has a consensus target price of $276.17, suggesting a potential upside of 19.63%. Home Depot has a consensus target price of $424.60, suggesting a potential upside of 12.67%. Given Lowe's Companies' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lowe's Companies is more favorable than Home Depot.
Home Depot has a net margin of 9.45% compared to Lowe's Companies' net margin of 8.19%. Home Depot's return on equity of 452.60% beat Lowe's Companies' return on equity.
74.1% of Lowe's Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Home Depot shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Lowe's Companies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Home Depot shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Home Depot beats Lowe's Companies on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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