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Urban Outfitters (URBN) Competitors

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$36.91 -0.71 (-1.89%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

URBN vs. JWN, LE, PLCE, ANF, AEO, BKE, FL, CAL, SCVL, and GES

Should you be buying Urban Outfitters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Urban Outfitters include Nordstrom (JWN), Lands' End (LE), Children's Place (PLCE), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Buckle (BKE), Foot Locker (FL), Caleres (CAL), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), and Guess? (GES).

Urban Outfitters vs.

Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) and Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and risk.

Urban Outfitters has a net margin of 5.83% compared to Nordstrom's net margin of -1.44%. Urban Outfitters' return on equity of 15.49% beat Nordstrom's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Urban Outfitters5.83% 15.49% 7.96%
Nordstrom -1.44%-21.26%-2.07%

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 insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Nordstrom shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Nordstrom had 11 more articles in the media than Urban Outfitters. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Nordstrom and 11 mentions for Urban Outfitters. Urban Outfitters' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Nordstrom's score of 0.68 indicating that Urban Outfitters is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Urban Outfitters
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Nordstrom
8 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Urban Outfitters received 276 more outperform votes than Nordstrom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.65% of users gave Urban Outfitters an outperform vote while only 58.10% of users gave Nordstrom an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Urban OutfittersOutperform Votes
1277
59.65%
Underperform Votes
864
40.35%
NordstromOutperform Votes
1001
58.10%
Underperform Votes
722
41.90%

Urban Outfitters presently has a consensus target price of $42.27, indicating a potential upside of 14.53%. Nordstrom has a consensus target price of $20.58, indicating a potential downside of 7.51%. Given Urban Outfitters' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Urban Outfitters is more favorable than Nordstrom.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Urban Outfitters
1 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.09
Nordstrom
3 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.77

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Urban Outfitters$5.32B0.64$287.67M$3.2711.29
Nordstrom$14.97B0.24$134M$1.7113.01

Urban Outfitters has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nordstrom has a beta of 2.59, indicating that its share price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Urban Outfitters beats Nordstrom on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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URBN vs. The Competition

MetricUrban OutfittersFamily clothing stores IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.41B$19.05B$23.61B$8.81B
Dividend YieldN/A2.34%168.62%4.06%
P/E Ratio11.2913.62117.6317.82
Price / Sales0.640.986.5674.56
Price / Cash8.6710.3820.0732.53
Price / Book1.625.446.264.68
Net Income$287.67M$702.99M$688.15M$226.08M
7 Day Performance-4.97%-4.59%-1.23%-1.04%
1 Month Performance0.60%-2.58%-2.18%1.04%
1 Year Performance1.65%25.60%15.23%26.28%

Urban Outfitters Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
URBN
Urban Outfitters
4.6324 of 5 stars
$36.91
-1.9%
$42.27
+14.5%
+0.1%$3.47B$5.15B11.2928,000Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
JWN
Nordstrom
3.7088 of 5 stars
$22.26
-1.9%
$20.58
-7.5%
+46.6%$3.72B$14.69B13.0154,000Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
LE
Lands' End
3.4258 of 5 stars
$14.77
-0.2%
$20.00
+35.4%
+110.7%$461.65M$1.47B0.004,900
PLCE
Children's Place
0.0881 of 5 stars
$14.78
-3.3%
$11.00
-25.6%
-23.5%$194.34M$1.60B0.008,390Analyst Forecast
ANF
Abercrombie & Fitch
4.5472 of 5 stars
$136.81
-4.0%
$177.43
+29.7%
+89.2%$6.99B$4.66B14.4931,700Upcoming Earnings
AEO
American Eagle Outfitters
4.9453 of 5 stars
$17.28
-0.9%
$25.00
+44.7%
-12.5%$3.32B$5.26B13.8243,100
BKE
Buckle
3.49 of 5 stars
$47.23
0.0%
$46.00
-2.6%
+24.8%$2.40B$1.26B11.528,000Analyst Upgrade
Positive News
FL
Foot Locker
4.6247 of 5 stars
$22.45
-1.2%
$26.53
+18.2%
-3.5%$2.16B$8.17B0.0046,846
CAL
Caleres
3.693 of 5 stars
$29.75
0.0%
$32.50
+9.2%
+8.3%$1.05B$2.80B6.449,200
SCVL
Shoe Carnival
4.4876 of 5 stars
$33.48
-0.6%
$42.00
+25.4%
+41.7%$914.94M$1.18B11.875,300Analyst Revision
News Coverage
GES
Guess?
4.362 of 5 stars
$16.20
-2.2%
$27.25
+68.2%
-32.9%$851.55M$2.78B6.5312,000

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This page (NASDAQ:URBN) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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