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WMT vs. COST, PSMT, TGT, DG, DLTR, BJ, OLLI, MNSO, FIVE, and AMZN

Should you be buying Walmart stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Walmart include Costco Wholesale (COST), PriceSmart (PSMT), Target (TGT), Dollar General (DG), Dollar Tree (DLTR), BJ's Wholesale Club (BJ), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), MINISO Group (MNSO), Five Below (FIVE), and Amazon.com (AMZN).

Walmart vs.

Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST) and Walmart (NYSE:WMT) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation and profitability.

68.5% of Costco Wholesale shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.8% of Walmart shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Costco Wholesale shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 45.6% of Walmart shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Costco Wholesale currently has a consensus price target of $1,024.03, indicating a potential upside of 0.58%. Walmart has a consensus price target of $104.94, indicating a potential upside of 9.36%. Given Walmart's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Walmart is more favorable than Costco Wholesale.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Costco Wholesale
0 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
21 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.70
Walmart
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
30 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.97

Costco Wholesale pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Walmart pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Costco Wholesale pays out 30.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Walmart pays out 40.2% 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. Costco Wholesale has raised its dividend for 22 consecutive years and Walmart has raised its dividend for 53 consecutive years. Walmart is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

In the previous week, Walmart had 135 more articles in the media than Costco Wholesale. MarketBeat recorded 202 mentions for Walmart and 67 mentions for Costco Wholesale. Costco Wholesale's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Walmart's score of 0.57 indicating that Costco Wholesale is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Costco Wholesale
47 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Walmart
85 Very Positive mention(s)
37 Positive mention(s)
32 Neutral mention(s)
25 Negative mention(s)
7 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Costco Wholesale received 274 more outperform votes than Walmart when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.04% of users gave Costco Wholesale an outperform vote while only 62.09% of users gave Walmart an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Costco WholesaleOutperform Votes
1871
72.04%
Underperform Votes
726
27.96%
WalmartOutperform Votes
1597
62.09%
Underperform Votes
975
37.91%

Costco Wholesale has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Walmart has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Walmart has higher revenue and earnings than Costco Wholesale. Walmart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Costco Wholesale, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Costco Wholesale$264.09B1.71$7.37B$17.1359.44
Walmart$680.99B1.13$15.51B$2.3441.00

Costco Wholesale has a net margin of 2.93% compared to Walmart's net margin of 2.85%. Costco Wholesale's return on equity of 32.31% beat Walmart's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Costco Wholesale2.93% 32.31% 10.55%
Walmart 2.85%21.87%7.84%

Summary

Costco Wholesale beats Walmart on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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WMT vs. The Competition

MetricWalmartVariety stores IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$767.69B$110.47B$25.20B$19.30B
Dividend Yield0.98%2.39%169.81%3.84%
P/E Ratio39.8121.0724.6034.53
Price / Sales1.131.003.9734.83
Price / Cash23.5117.7219.4117.51
Price / Book7.916.546.104.69
Net Income$15.51B$2.55B$784.05M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-0.37%2.39%-1.01%-1.74%
1 Month Performance1.10%10.14%10.25%7.50%
1 Year Performance47.09%8.46%8.11%4.15%

Walmart Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WMT
Walmart
4.2558 of 5 stars
$95.95
-0.5%
$104.94
+9.4%
+47.1%$767.69B$680.99B39.812,300,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
COST
Costco Wholesale
4.0791 of 5 stars
$1,031.09
+0.5%
$1,024.03
-0.7%
+27.0%$457.53B$264.09B60.55304,000Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
PSMT
PriceSmart
1.5992 of 5 stars
$106.13
+1.4%
N/A+23.2%$3.26B$5.08B23.3810,600
TGT
Target
4.5646 of 5 stars
$97.83
-0.8%
$127.29
+30.1%
-33.7%$44.36B$106.57B10.35450,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
Analyst Revision
DG
Dollar General
4.2966 of 5 stars
$97.95
+4.7%
$95.48
-2.5%
-28.9%$21.53B$40.61B16.12163,000Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
DLTR
Dollar Tree
3.7521 of 5 stars
$87.03
+0.6%
$82.68
-5.0%
-20.9%$18.69B$17.58B-18.22210,600News Coverage
Positive News
BJ
BJ's Wholesale Club
2.3391 of 5 stars
$117.68
+1.1%
$112.06
-4.8%
+44.1%$15.52B$20.50B28.3334,000Trending News
Earnings Report
OLLI
Ollie's Bargain Outlet
3.0682 of 5 stars
$120.29
+1.2%
$123.23
+2.4%
+54.7%$7.40B$2.27B35.969,900Positive News
Analyst Forecast
MNSO
MINISO Group
4.0559 of 5 stars
$20.57
+1.3%
$26.03
+26.6%
+0.3%$6.46B$16.99B18.603,370Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Up
FIVE
Five Below
3.3662 of 5 stars
$109.01
+2.3%
$97.25
-10.8%
-16.5%$6.00B$3.88B22.4820,200Positive News
Analyst Forecast
AMZN
Amazon.com
4.865 of 5 stars
$205.55
0.0%
$244.09
+18.7%
+10.9%$2.19T$650.31B37.221,541,000Trending News

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