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.
Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ:ULTA) and JD.com (NASDAQ:JD) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
Ulta Beauty has a net margin of 11.52% compared to Ulta Beauty's net margin of 2.26%. JD.com's return on equity of 61.64% beat Ulta Beauty's return on equity.
90.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.0% of JD.com shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of JD.com shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Ulta Beauty presently has a consensus price target of $539.55, suggesting a potential upside of 35.03%. JD.com has a consensus price target of $37.47, suggesting a potential upside of 6.23%. Given JD.com's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ulta Beauty is more favorable than JD.com.
Ulta Beauty has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JD.com has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
In the previous week, JD.com had 52 more articles in the media than Ulta Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 81 mentions for JD.com and 29 mentions for Ulta Beauty. JD.com's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Ulta Beauty's score of 0.50 indicating that Ulta Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ulta Beauty beats JD.com on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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