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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

Walmart (NYSE:WMT) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) 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 profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

Walmart pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Amazon.com pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Walmart pays out 40.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Amazon.com pays out 3.3% 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. Walmart has increased its dividend for 53 consecutive years. Walmart is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

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

Amazon.com has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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
Walmart$685.09B1.11$19.44B$2.3440.56
Amazon.com$650.31B3.63$59.25B$6.1436.20

26.8% of Walmart shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Amazon.com shares are held by institutional investors. 45.6% of Walmart shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.7% of Amazon.com shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Amazon.com had 169 more articles in the media than Walmart. MarketBeat recorded 296 mentions for Amazon.com and 127 mentions for Walmart. Walmart's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Amazon.com's score of 0.92 indicating that Walmart is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Walmart
85 Very Positive mention(s)
27 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Amazon.com
167 Very Positive mention(s)
59 Positive mention(s)
37 Neutral mention(s)
17 Negative mention(s)
4 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
Walmart2.75% 21.76% 7.79%
Amazon.com 10.14%24.14%10.90%

Walmart presently has a consensus price target of $106.67, suggesting a potential upside of 12.38%. Amazon.com has a consensus price target of $247.17, suggesting a potential upside of 11.21%. Given Walmart's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Walmart is more favorable than Amazon.com.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Walmart
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
29 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.97
Amazon.com
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
45 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.98

Summary

Amazon.com beats Walmart on 12 of the 19 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$757.48B$78.82B$26.36B$20.56B
Dividend Yield0.95%2.51%175.56%3.74%
P/E Ratio40.5616.7329.6628.05
Price / Sales1.110.436.0650.52
Price / Cash23.488.2747.3222.25
Price / Book7.822.755.784.61
Net Income$19.44B$2.46B$869.96M$982.91M
7 Day Performance-3.43%-1.43%19.33%3.26%
1 Month Performance-2.49%1.57%3.61%4.37%
1 Year Performance34.83%18.87%34.21%14.95%

Walmart Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WMT
Walmart
4.9344 of 5 stars
$94.92
-2.0%
$106.67
+12.4%
+38.7%$757.48B$685.09B40.562,100,000Trending News
AMZN
Amazon.com
4.7553 of 5 stars
$222.79
-0.3%
$245.60
+10.2%
+11.6%$2.37T$650.31B36.421,556,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
COST
Costco Wholesale
4.5893 of 5 stars
$988.21
+0.1%
$1,034.79
+4.7%
+10.7%$438.74B$254.45B56.11333,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
GOOGL
Alphabet
4.2594 of 5 stars
$176.05
-1.9%
$199.95
+13.6%
-6.5%$2.14T$350.02B19.66183,323Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
ROST
Ross Stores
4.9504 of 5 stars
$130.43
-0.9%
$158.94
+21.9%
-10.6%$42.67B$21.13B20.61107,000Positive News
DG
Dollar General
4.3724 of 5 stars
$115.84
+1.5%
$109.08
-5.8%
-12.7%$25.48B$40.61B22.10194,200Trending News
Analyst Forecast
HD
Home Depot
4.8674 of 5 stars
$365.25
-1.7%
$426.77
+16.8%
+9.9%$364.00B$159.51B24.82520,700Positive News
KR
Kroger
4.1975 of 5 stars
$71.27
+2.1%
$70.00
-1.8%
+35.4%$47.10B$146.97B19.42409,000Trending News
LOW
Lowe's Companies
4.8849 of 5 stars
$223.12
-2.3%
$271.12
+21.5%
+4.2%$125.32B$83.67B18.53270,000Positive News
SHOP
Shopify
3.9974 of 5 stars
$115.59
-0.8%
$115.66
+0.1%
+72.9%$150.32B$9.38B74.7511,600Positive News
TGT
Target
4.8323 of 5 stars
$101.13
-2.8%
$116.70
+15.4%
-30.5%$46.08B$105.88B11.15440,000

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This page (NYSE:WMT) was last updated on 7/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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