SBH vs. FIVE, SIG, ODP, WINA, HIBB, HZO, BGFV, TSCO, ULTA, and DKS
Should you be buying Sally Beauty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sally Beauty include Five Below (FIVE), Signet Jewelers (SIG), ODP (ODP), Winmark (WINA), Hibbett (HIBB), MarineMax (HZO), Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV), Tractor Supply (TSCO), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), and DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS). These companies are all part of the "specialty stores" industry.
Sally Beauty (NYSE:SBH) and Five Below (NASDAQ:FIVE) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
Sally Beauty currently has a consensus price target of $11.25, suggesting a potential downside of 0.79%. Five Below has a consensus price target of $115.89, suggesting a potential upside of 61.03%. Given Five Below's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Five Below is more favorable than Sally Beauty.
Five Below has a net margin of 8.10% compared to Sally Beauty's net margin of 4.36%. Sally Beauty's return on equity of 34.23% beat Five Below's return on equity.
Five Below has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Sally Beauty. Sally Beauty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Five Below, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sally Beauty has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Five Below has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Five Below had 41 more articles in the media than Sally Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Five Below and 2 mentions for Sally Beauty. Sally Beauty's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Five Below's score of -0.07 indicating that Sally Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Five Below received 502 more outperform votes than Sally Beauty when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.21% of users gave Five Below an outperform vote while only 55.68% of users gave Sally Beauty an outperform vote.
Summary
Five Below beats Sally Beauty on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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