JD vs. ULTA, SBH, WOOF, LESL, RERE, FLWS, TITN, SGU, NEGG, and BARK
Should you be buying JD.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JD.com include Ulta Beauty (ULTA), Sally Beauty (SBH), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), Leslie's (LESL), ATRenew (RERE), 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), Titan Machinery (TITN), Star Group (SGU), Newegg Commerce (NEGG), and BARK (BARK). These companies are all part of the "retail stores, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ:ULTA) and JD.com (NASDAQ:JD) 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 media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking and risk.
90.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.0% of JD.com shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of JD.com shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ulta Beauty has a net margin of 11.13% compared to Ulta Beauty's net margin of 2.26%. JD.com's return on equity of 58.06% beat Ulta Beauty's return on equity.
Ulta Beauty presently has a consensus price target of $507.30, suggesting a potential upside of 28.17%. JD.com has a consensus price target of $37.47, suggesting a potential upside of 25.43%. Given JD.com's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ulta Beauty is more favorable than JD.com.
In the previous week, JD.com had 1 more articles in the media than Ulta Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for JD.com and 12 mentions for Ulta Beauty. JD.com's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Ulta Beauty's score of 0.94 indicating that Ulta Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ulta Beauty has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JD.com has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ulta Beauty received 267 more outperform votes than JD.com when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.35% of users gave Ulta Beauty an outperform vote while only 66.71% of users gave JD.com an outperform vote.
JD.com has higher revenue and earnings than Ulta Beauty. JD.com is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ulta Beauty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ulta Beauty beats JD.com on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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