ROST vs. JWN, TJX, ANF, GPS, AEO, URBN, FL, BKE, CAL, and GES
Should you be buying Ross Stores stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ross Stores include Nordstrom (JWN), TJX Companies (TJX), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), GAP (GPS), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Urban Outfitters (URBN), Foot Locker (FL), Buckle (BKE), Caleres (CAL), and Guess? (GES).
Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) and Ross Stores (NASDAQ:ROST) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Nordstrom currently has a consensus target price of $17.54, indicating a potential downside of 20.64%. Ross Stores has a consensus target price of $156.58, indicating a potential upside of 12.03%. Given Nordstrom's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ross Stores is more favorable than Nordstrom.
Ross Stores has higher revenue and earnings than Nordstrom. Ross Stores is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nordstrom, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nordstrom received 36 more outperform votes than Ross Stores when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.13% of users gave Ross Stores an outperform vote while only 58.60% of users gave Nordstrom an outperform vote.
88.7% of Nordstrom shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Ross Stores shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Nordstrom shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Ross Stores shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Nordstrom pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Ross Stores pays an annual dividend of $1.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Nordstrom pays out 95.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ross Stores pays out 24.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nordstrom has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Ross Stores has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
Ross Stores has a net margin of 9.60% compared to Ross Stores' net margin of 0.91%. Ross Stores' return on equity of 49.30% beat Nordstrom's return on equity.
Nordstrom has a beta of 2.59, meaning that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ross Stores has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Nordstrom had 4 more articles in the media than Ross Stores. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for Nordstrom and 40 mentions for Ross Stores. Nordstrom's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Ross Stores' score of 0.43 indicating that Ross Stores is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ross Stores beats Nordstrom on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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