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.
BJ's Wholesale Club (NYSE:BJ) and Dollar General (NYSE:DG) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
Dollar General received 966 more outperform votes than BJ's Wholesale Club when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.20% 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 21 more articles in the media than BJ's Wholesale Club. MarketBeat recorded 53 mentions for Dollar General and 32 mentions for BJ's Wholesale Club. BJ's Wholesale Club's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Dollar General's score of 0.33 indicating that BJ's Wholesale Club is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
98.6% of BJ's Wholesale Club shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Dollar General shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of BJ's Wholesale Club shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Dollar General shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BJ's Wholesale Club presently has a consensus target price of $81.88, indicating a potential downside of 7.03%. Dollar General has a consensus target price of $151.48, indicating a potential upside of 10.64%. Given Dollar General's stronger consensus rating and higher probable 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 BJ's Wholesale Club's net margin of 2.59%. BJ's Wholesale Club's return on equity of 37.78% beat Dollar General's return on equity.
BJ's Wholesale Club has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its stock price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dollar General has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Dollar General beats BJ's Wholesale Club on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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