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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 superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings and valuation.

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Amazon.com10.54% 23.84% 11.14%
Home Depot 8.86%193.99%15.34%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Amazon.com$637.96B3.68$59.25B$6.5633.55
Home Depot$159.51B2.37$14.81B$14.7225.77

Amazon.com currently has a consensus price target of $266.26, indicating a potential upside of 20.99%. Home Depot has a consensus price target of $435.42, indicating a potential upside of 14.78%. Given Amazon.com's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Amazon.com is more favorable than Home Depot.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Amazon.com
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
47 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.04
Home Depot
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
19 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.81

72.2% of Amazon.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Home Depot shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.8% of Amazon.com shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Home Depot shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Amazon.com had 125 more articles in the media than Home Depot. MarketBeat recorded 219 mentions for Amazon.com and 94 mentions for Home Depot. Home Depot's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Amazon.com's score of 1.06 indicating that Home Depot is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Amazon.com
144 Very Positive mention(s)
37 Positive mention(s)
25 Neutral mention(s)
6 Negative mention(s)
4 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Home Depot
79 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Amazon.com has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Home Depot has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.

Summary

Amazon.com beats Home Depot on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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HD vs. The Competition

MetricHome DepotRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$374.02B$45.09B$26.74B$21.48B
Dividend Yield2.45%3.72%172.56%3.67%
P/E Ratio25.7718.8419.2729.66
Price / Sales2.371.139.1086.18
Price / Cash19.7511.8316.8517.79
Price / Book56.799.705.084.63
Net Income$14.81B$2.36B$911.72M$1.01B
7 Day Performance-1.93%-5.49%-1.30%-0.80%
1 Month Performance-10.39%-12.88%-1.93%0.55%
1 Year Performance-8.76%-16.88%12.76%13.03%

Home Depot Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HD
Home Depot
4.7148 of 5 stars
$379.36
+1.0%
$435.42
+14.8%
-7.9%$374.02B$159.51B25.77520,700Positive News
AMZN
Amazon.com
4.8473 of 5 stars
$220.29
+0.4%
$266.26
+20.9%
+16.6%$2.35T$637.96B33.591,556,000Trending News
COST
Costco Wholesale
4.7351 of 5 stars
$907.79
-0.8%
$1,067.19
+17.6%
+5.2%$402.56B$275.24B49.85333,000Positive News
SBUX
Starbucks
4.8872 of 5 stars
$82.62
-4.4%
$104.00
+25.9%
-16.2%$93.95B$36.18B35.63361,000Analyst Forecast
TSLA
Tesla
3.9628 of 5 stars
$448.89
+4.4%
$343.43
-23.5%
+100.1%$1.49T$97.69B259.29125,665Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
BLDR
Builders FirstSource
4.0191 of 5 stars
$127.70
-0.7%
$151.50
+18.6%
-37.5%$14.11B$15.94B19.3729,000
DIS
Walt Disney
4.8422 of 5 stars
$112.50
+0.0%
$131.18
+16.6%
+17.2%$202.30B$91.36B17.64233,000Trending News
LOW
Lowe's Companies
4.8553 of 5 stars
$242.39
-1.6%
$285.50
+17.8%
-15.1%$135.93B$83.61B19.92270,000Positive News
Dividend Increase
NKE
NIKE
4.8799 of 5 stars
$71.73
-0.3%
$81.57
+13.7%
-18.0%$105.90B$46.44B36.7777,800Positive News
Analyst Forecast
TGT
Target
4.9142 of 5 stars
$89.76
+0.8%
$109.71
+22.2%
-44.9%$40.81B$106.57B10.47440,000Analyst Forecast
WMT
Walmart
4.5474 of 5 stars
$102.66
+0.6%
$112.38
+9.5%
+27.4%$818.94B$680.99B38.622,100,000Positive News

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This page (NYSE:HD) was last updated on 10/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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