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FIVE vs. ULTA, DKS, SIG, WINA, SBH, HZO, ODP, BGFV, TSCO, and SN

Should you be buying Five Below stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Five Below include Ulta Beauty (ULTA), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Signet Jewelers (SIG), Winmark (WINA), Sally Beauty (SBH), MarineMax (HZO), ODP (ODP), Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV), Tractor Supply (TSCO), and SharkNinja (SN). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.

Five Below vs. Its Competitors

Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ:ULTA) and Five Below (NASDAQ:FIVE) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.

Ulta Beauty currently has a consensus target price of $465.04, indicating a potential downside of 5.73%. Five Below has a consensus target price of $115.11, indicating a potential downside of 17.76%. Given Ulta Beauty's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ulta Beauty is more favorable than Five Below.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ulta Beauty
1 Sell rating(s)
11 Hold rating(s)
13 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.48
Five Below
1 Sell rating(s)
13 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25

Ulta Beauty has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Five Below has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Ulta Beauty has higher revenue and earnings than Five Below. Ulta Beauty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Five Below, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ulta Beauty$11.30B1.96$1.20B$25.6019.27
Five Below$3.88B1.99$253.61M$4.7729.34

Ulta Beauty has a net margin of 10.45% compared to Five Below's net margin of 6.52%. Ulta Beauty's return on equity of 49.73% beat Five Below's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ulta Beauty10.45% 49.73% 20.15%
Five Below 6.52%17.00%6.89%

90.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Five Below shares are owned by company 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.

In the previous week, Ulta Beauty had 9 more articles in the media than Five Below. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Ulta Beauty and 19 mentions for Five Below. Ulta Beauty's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Five Below's score of 0.89 indicating that Ulta Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Ulta Beauty
23 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Five Below
7 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Ulta Beauty beats Five Below on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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FIVE vs. The Competition

MetricFive BelowRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$7.71B$11.53B$26.57B$9.41B
Dividend YieldN/A2.26%177.11%4.04%
P/E Ratio29.3415.1329.8619.76
Price / Sales1.991.686.0489.19
Price / Cash17.2910.9817.0928.17
Price / Book4.263.925.675.69
Net Income$253.61M$608.19M$879.47M$257.97M
7 Day Performance4.21%-0.70%-0.31%1.92%
1 Month Performance13.47%5.83%5.64%12.82%
1 Year Performance81.05%5.20%23.83%19.22%

Five Below Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FIVE
Five Below
2.888 of 5 stars
$139.97
+0.2%
$115.11
-17.8%
+81.1%$7.71B$3.88B29.3423,200
ULTA
Ulta Beauty
3.7902 of 5 stars
$480.00
+0.7%
$465.04
-3.1%
+26.2%$21.57B$11.42B18.7558,000Positive News
DKS
DICK'S Sporting Goods
4.7933 of 5 stars
$208.87
-0.5%
$219.56
+5.1%
-1.2%$16.72B$13.60B14.9456,100
SIG
Signet Jewelers
2.9353 of 5 stars
$80.99
+1.8%
$87.14
+7.6%
-2.8%$3.33B$6.73B88.0427,595Positive News
WINA
Winmark
1.3847 of 5 stars
$372.23
+0.7%
N/A-3.6%$1.31B$83.10M33.2680Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
SBH
Sally Beauty
3.8019 of 5 stars
$10.09
+2.7%
$12.63
+25.2%
-13.5%$1.02B$3.72B5.6727,000Positive News
HZO
MarineMax
4.544 of 5 stars
$26.00
-3.6%
$33.25
+27.9%
-26.5%$558.11M$2.43B10.614,050News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
ODP
ODP
4.4238 of 5 stars
$18.33
+0.9%
$28.00
+52.8%
-57.3%$551.40M$6.82B-13.1919,000
BGFV
Big 5 Sporting Goods
0.1461 of 5 stars
$1.42
-0.4%
N/A-45.6%$32.34M$777.69M-0.407,600
TSCO
Tractor Supply
4.7187 of 5 stars
$58.06
+2.2%
$58.02
-0.1%
+5.4%$30.78B$14.88B28.8352,000Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
SN
SharkNinja
2.2061 of 5 stars
$111.74
+0.7%
$121.50
+8.7%
+61.7%$15.76B$5.53B35.363,688News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:FIVE) was last updated on 7/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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