WSM vs. DRI, EXPE, DKS, DPZ, ULTA, BBY, WBA, DECK, CVNA, and YUMC
Should you be buying Williams-Sonoma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Williams-Sonoma include Darden Restaurants (DRI), Expedia Group (EXPE), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), Best Buy (BBY), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Deckers Outdoor (DECK), Carvana (CVNA), and Yum China (YUMC). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:WSM) and Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, profitability and risk.
99.3% of Williams-Sonoma shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Darden Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Williams-Sonoma shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Darden Restaurants shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Williams-Sonoma pays an annual dividend of $4.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Darden Restaurants pays an annual dividend of $5.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Williams-Sonoma pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Darden Restaurants pays out 61.4% 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.
Darden Restaurants received 437 more outperform votes than Williams-Sonoma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.55% of users gave Darden Restaurants an outperform vote while only 49.21% of users gave Williams-Sonoma an outperform vote.
Williams-Sonoma has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Darden Restaurants has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Williams-Sonoma has a net margin of 12.25% compared to Darden Restaurants' net margin of 9.24%. Williams-Sonoma's return on equity of 55.15% beat Darden Restaurants' return on equity.
In the previous week, Williams-Sonoma had 1 more articles in the media than Darden Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Williams-Sonoma and 16 mentions for Darden Restaurants. Darden Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Williams-Sonoma's score of 0.83 indicating that Darden Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Darden Restaurants has higher revenue and earnings than Williams-Sonoma. Darden Restaurants is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Williams-Sonoma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Williams-Sonoma currently has a consensus price target of $248.06, suggesting a potential downside of 12.97%. Darden Restaurants has a consensus price target of $178.85, suggesting a potential upside of 14.71%. Given Darden Restaurants' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Darden Restaurants is more favorable than Williams-Sonoma.
Summary
Williams-Sonoma beats Darden Restaurants on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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