BJ vs. DG, DLTR, MNSO, FIVE, OLLI, PSMT, BIG, WMT, COST, and TGT
Should you be buying BJ's Wholesale Club stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BJ's Wholesale Club include Dollar General (DG), Dollar Tree (DLTR), MINISO Group (MNSO), Five Below (FIVE), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), PriceSmart (PSMT), Big Lots (BIG), Walmart (WMT), Costco Wholesale (COST), and Target (TGT). These companies are all part of the "variety stores" industry.
Dollar General (NYSE:DG) and BJ's Wholesale Club (NYSE:BJ) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Dollar General received 966 more outperform votes than BJ's Wholesale Club when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.16% of users gave Dollar General an outperform vote while only 53.88% of users gave BJ's Wholesale Club an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Dollar General had 7 more articles in the media than BJ's Wholesale Club. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Dollar General and 14 mentions for BJ's Wholesale Club. Dollar General's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat BJ's Wholesale Club's score of 0.48 indicating that BJ's Wholesale Club is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
91.8% of Dollar General shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.6% of BJ's Wholesale Club shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Dollar General shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of BJ's Wholesale Club shares are owned by 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.
Dollar General currently has a consensus target price of $148.41, suggesting a potential upside of 17.22%. BJ's Wholesale Club has a consensus target price of $81.88, suggesting a potential downside of 7.41%. Given BJ's Wholesale Club's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Dollar General is more favorable than BJ's Wholesale Club.
Dollar General has a net margin of 3.85% compared to Dollar General's net margin of 2.59%. Dollar General's return on equity of 37.78% beat BJ's Wholesale Club's return on equity.
Dollar General has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BJ's Wholesale Club has a beta of 0.24, meaning that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dollar General has higher revenue and earnings than BJ's Wholesale Club. Dollar General is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BJ's Wholesale Club, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Dollar General beats BJ's Wholesale Club on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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