JD vs. ULTA, AZO, ORLY, ROST, CPNG, KR, YUM, FAST, CVS, and TGT
Should you be buying JD.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JD.com include Ulta Beauty (ULTA), AutoZone (AZO), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), Ross Stores (ROST), Coupang (CPNG), Kroger (KR), Yum! Brands (YUM), Fastenal (FAST), CVS Health (CVS), and Target (TGT). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
JD.com (NASDAQ:JD) and Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ:ULTA) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
Ulta Beauty has a net margin of 11.52% compared to JD.com's net margin of 2.26%. Ulta Beauty's return on equity of 61.64% beat JD.com's return on equity.
In the previous week, JD.com had 48 more articles in the media than Ulta Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 78 mentions for JD.com and 30 mentions for Ulta Beauty. Ulta Beauty's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat JD.com's score of 0.47 indicating that Ulta Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
JD.com has higher revenue and earnings than Ulta Beauty. Ulta Beauty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JD.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
JD.com presently has a consensus target price of $37.47, suggesting a potential upside of 6.23%. Ulta Beauty has a consensus target price of $539.55, suggesting a potential upside of 35.03%. Given Ulta Beauty's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ulta Beauty is more favorable than JD.com.
16.0% of JD.com shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are held by institutional investors. 16.6% of JD.com shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ulta Beauty received 260 more outperform votes than JD.com when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.35% of users gave Ulta Beauty an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave JD.com an outperform vote.
JD.com has a beta of 0.51, indicating that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ulta Beauty has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ulta Beauty beats JD.com on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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