URBN vs. JWN, LE, ANF, GPS, AEO, FL, BKE, CAL, GES, and SCVL
Should you be buying Urban Outfitters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Urban Outfitters include Nordstrom (JWN), Lands' End (LE), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), GAP (GPS), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Foot Locker (FL), Buckle (BKE), Caleres (CAL), Guess? (GES), and Shoe Carnival (SCVL).
Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) and Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Urban Outfitters has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nordstrom has a beta of 2.59, indicating that its share price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Urban Outfitters received 273 more outperform votes than Nordstrom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.78% of users gave Urban Outfitters an outperform vote while only 58.60% of users gave Nordstrom an outperform vote.
77.6% of Urban Outfitters shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of Nordstrom shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.8% of Urban Outfitters shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Nordstrom shares are owned by 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.
Urban Outfitters has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Nordstrom. Nordstrom is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Urban Outfitters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Urban Outfitters has a net margin of 5.66% compared to Nordstrom's net margin of -1.35%. Urban Outfitters' return on equity of 15.36% beat Nordstrom's return on equity.
Urban Outfitters presently has a consensus price target of $43.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.09%. Nordstrom has a consensus price target of $17.42, suggesting a potential downside of 21.19%. Given Urban Outfitters' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Urban Outfitters is more favorable than Nordstrom.
In the previous week, Nordstrom had 31 more articles in the media than Urban Outfitters. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Nordstrom and 12 mentions for Urban Outfitters. Urban Outfitters' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Nordstrom's score of 0.40 indicating that Urban Outfitters is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Urban Outfitters beats Nordstrom on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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