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WMT vs. AMZN, COST, GOOGL, ROST, DG, HD, KR, LOW, SHOP, and TGT

Should you be buying Walmart stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Walmart include Amazon.com (AMZN), Costco Wholesale (COST), Alphabet (GOOGL), Ross Stores (ROST), Dollar General (DG), Home Depot (HD), Kroger (KR), Lowe's Companies (LOW), Shopify (SHOP), and Target (TGT).

Walmart vs. Its Competitors

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

Amazon.com has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Walmart has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Amazon.com presently has a consensus price target of $250.35, suggesting a potential upside of 10.71%. Walmart has a consensus price target of $106.67, suggesting a potential upside of 12.27%. Given Walmart's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Walmart is more favorable than Amazon.com.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Amazon.com
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
45 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Walmart
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
29 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.97

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Amazon.com$637.96B3.76$59.25B$6.1436.83
Walmart$680.99B1.11$19.44B$2.3440.60

In the previous week, Amazon.com had 125 more articles in the media than Walmart. MarketBeat recorded 257 mentions for Amazon.com and 132 mentions for Walmart. Walmart's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Amazon.com's score of 0.85 indicating that Walmart is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Amazon.com
161 Very Positive mention(s)
34 Positive mention(s)
40 Neutral mention(s)
12 Negative mention(s)
5 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Walmart
90 Very Positive mention(s)
23 Positive mention(s)
12 Neutral mention(s)
5 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Amazon.com has a net margin of 10.14% compared to Walmart's net margin of 2.75%. Amazon.com's return on equity of 24.14% beat Walmart's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Amazon.com10.14% 24.14% 10.90%
Walmart 2.75%21.76%7.79%

72.2% of Amazon.com shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.8% of Walmart shares are held by institutional investors. 9.7% of Amazon.com shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 45.6% of Walmart shares are held 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.

Summary

Amazon.com beats Walmart on 12 of the 17 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 WMT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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WMT vs. The Competition

MetricWalmartRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$758.86B$78.53B$26.44B$20.85B
Dividend Yield0.99%2.56%177.11%3.65%
P/E Ratio40.6016.5327.7626.34
Price / Sales1.110.426.0659.22
Price / Cash23.008.1448.2622.29
Price / Book7.832.725.654.66
Net Income$19.44B$2.46B$876.41M$994.58M
7 Day Performance0.69%-0.27%-0.68%-0.29%
1 Month Performance-0.10%1.08%6.88%4.91%
1 Year Performance34.25%12.76%22.45%10.53%

Walmart Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WMT
Walmart
4.878 of 5 stars
$95.01
-0.1%
$106.67
+12.3%
+33.9%$758.86B$680.99B40.602,100,000Trending News
Insider Trade
AMZN
Amazon.com
4.6077 of 5 stars
$225.34
+0.1%
$249.42
+10.7%
+19.1%$2.39T$637.96B36.701,556,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
COST
Costco Wholesale
4.2585 of 5 stars
$975.05
+0.5%
$1,037.48
+6.4%
+12.7%$432.17B$268.78B55.28333,000Trending News
Dividend Announcement
Insider Trade
GOOGL
Alphabet
3.8297 of 5 stars
$181.65
+0.8%
$199.61
+9.9%
+1.4%$2.20T$350.02B20.25183,323Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
ROST
Ross Stores
4.8168 of 5 stars
$130.39
-0.6%
$158.94
+21.9%
-11.6%$42.65B$21.26B20.60107,000Positive News
DG
Dollar General
4.5552 of 5 stars
$113.81
+0.6%
$109.46
-3.8%
-12.2%$25.02B$40.61B21.69194,200Analyst Forecast
HD
Home Depot
4.8557 of 5 stars
$368.46
-0.4%
$426.77
+15.8%
-3.4%$366.75B$159.51B25.01520,700Positive News
KR
Kroger
4.5919 of 5 stars
$71.89
+1.8%
$70.00
-2.6%
+31.9%$47.45B$147.12B19.57409,000Trending News
Insider Trade
LOW
Lowe's Companies
4.9469 of 5 stars
$221.51
-1.2%
$271.12
+22.4%
-10.0%$124.13B$83.24B18.35270,000Positive News
SHOP
Shopify
4.1341 of 5 stars
$116.97
+4.3%
$115.77
-1.0%
+95.5%$151.73B$9.38B75.4511,600Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
TGT
Target
4.8631 of 5 stars
$104.47
+0.2%
$116.70
+11.7%
-33.5%$47.48B$106.57B11.48440,000Analyst Forecast

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