BBY vs. GME, CONN, IZM, TGT, CVS, ORLY, AZO, ROST, JD, and CPNG
Should you be buying Best Buy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Best Buy include GameStop (GME), Conn's (CONN), ICZOOM Group (IZM), Target (TGT), CVS Health (CVS), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), AutoZone (AZO), Ross Stores (ROST), JD.com (JD), and Coupang (CPNG).
GameStop (NYSE:GME) and Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
GameStop presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential downside of 69.75%. Best Buy has a consensus price target of $86.36, suggesting a potential upside of 1.81%. Given GameStop's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Best Buy is more favorable than GameStop.
Best Buy has higher revenue and earnings than GameStop. Best Buy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GameStop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
29.2% of GameStop shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Best Buy shares are held by institutional investors. 12.3% of GameStop shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Best Buy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Best Buy had 9 more articles in the media than GameStop. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for Best Buy and 36 mentions for GameStop. GameStop's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Best Buy's score of 0.55 indicating that Best Buy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GameStop has a beta of -0.25, suggesting that its share price is 125% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Best Buy has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GameStop pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Best Buy pays an annual dividend of $3.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. GameStop pays out 7,600.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Best Buy pays out 65.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Best Buy has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years.
Best Buy has a net margin of 2.90% compared to Best Buy's net margin of 0.13%. GameStop's return on equity of 47.56% beat Best Buy's return on equity.
Best Buy received 241 more outperform votes than GameStop when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.86% of users gave Best Buy an outperform vote while only 73.85% of users gave GameStop an outperform vote.
Summary
Best Buy beats GameStop on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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