JWN vs. URBN, AEO, BKE, ANF, GPS, RUSHA, SG, GMS, RUSHB, and WEN
Should you be buying Nordstrom stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nordstrom include Urban Outfitters (URBN), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Buckle (BKE), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), GAP (GPS), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), Sweetgreen (SG), GMS (GMS), Rush Enterprises (RUSHB), and Wendy's (WEN). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) and Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Urban Outfitters presently has a consensus price target of $39.75, suggesting a potential downside of 4.31%. Nordstrom has a consensus price target of $16.69, suggesting a potential downside of 21.45%. Given Nordstrom's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Urban Outfitters is more favorable than Nordstrom.
Urban Outfitters has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nordstrom has a beta of 2.59, suggesting that its share price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Nordstrom shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Urban Outfitters received 270 more outperform votes than Nordstrom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.87% of users gave Urban Outfitters an outperform vote while only 58.78% of users gave Nordstrom an outperform vote.
Urban Outfitters has a net margin of 5.58% compared to Urban Outfitters' net margin of 0.91%. Urban Outfitters' return on equity of 49.30% beat Nordstrom's return on equity.
In the previous week, Nordstrom had 2 more articles in the media than Urban Outfitters. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Nordstrom and 15 mentions for Urban Outfitters. Nordstrom's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Urban Outfitters' score of 0.52 indicating that Urban Outfitters is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Urban Outfitters has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Nordstrom. Urban Outfitters is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nordstrom, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Urban Outfitters beats Nordstrom on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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