SBUX vs. MELI, CMG, TGT, CVS, ORLY, TJX, JD, AZO, ROST, and BKNG
Should you be buying Starbucks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Starbucks include MercadoLibre (MELI), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Target (TGT), CVS Health (CVS), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), TJX Companies (TJX), JD.com (JD), AutoZone (AZO), Ross Stores (ROST), and Booking (BKNG). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI) and Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Starbucks has a net margin of 11.38% compared to Starbucks' net margin of 7.17%. Starbucks' return on equity of 39.46% beat MercadoLibre's return on equity.
MercadoLibre presently has a consensus price target of $1,820.38, suggesting a potential upside of 4.67%. Starbucks has a consensus price target of $96.43, suggesting a potential upside of 28.10%. Given MercadoLibre's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Starbucks is more favorable than MercadoLibre.
In the previous week, Starbucks had 35 more articles in the media than MercadoLibre. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for Starbucks and 11 mentions for MercadoLibre. Starbucks' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat MercadoLibre's score of 0.32 indicating that MercadoLibre is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MercadoLibre has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Starbucks has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Starbucks received 1429 more outperform votes than MercadoLibre when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.72% of users gave Starbucks an outperform vote while only 65.22% of users gave MercadoLibre an outperform vote.
87.6% of MercadoLibre shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.3% of Starbucks shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of MercadoLibre shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Starbucks shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Starbucks has higher revenue and earnings than MercadoLibre. Starbucks is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MercadoLibre, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
MercadoLibre and Starbucks tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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