WBA vs. CVS, GRDN, PETS, YI, CJJD, CPNG, YUM, ONON, EBAY, and DECK
Should you be buying Walgreens Boots Alliance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Walgreens Boots Alliance include CVS Health (CVS), Guardian Pharmacy Services (GRDN), PetMed Express (PETS), 111 (YI), China Jo-Jo Drugstores (CJJD), Coupang (CPNG), Yum! Brands (YUM), ON (ONON), eBay (EBAY), and Deckers Outdoor (DECK).
Walgreens Boots Alliance vs.
Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) and CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
CVS Health has a net margin of 1.36% compared to Walgreens Boots Alliance's net margin of -5.85%. Walgreens Boots Alliance's return on equity of 14.23% beat CVS Health's return on equity.
Walgreens Boots Alliance presently has a consensus price target of $13.27, suggesting a potential upside of 5.98%. CVS Health has a consensus price target of $68.71, suggesting a potential upside of 30.31%. Given CVS Health's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CVS Health is more favorable than Walgreens Boots Alliance.
Walgreens Boots Alliance has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CVS Health has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Walgreens Boots Alliance had 13 more articles in the media than CVS Health. MarketBeat recorded 62 mentions for Walgreens Boots Alliance and 49 mentions for CVS Health. CVS Health's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Walgreens Boots Alliance's score of 0.35 indicating that CVS Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Walgreens Boots Alliance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. CVS Health pays an annual dividend of $2.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Walgreens Boots Alliance pays out -9.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CVS Health pays out 67.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Walgreens Boots Alliance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
58.6% of Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of CVS Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.5% of Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of CVS Health shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CVS Health received 258 more outperform votes than Walgreens Boots Alliance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.54% of users gave CVS Health an outperform vote while only 65.34% of users gave Walgreens Boots Alliance an outperform vote.
CVS Health has higher revenue and earnings than Walgreens Boots Alliance. Walgreens Boots Alliance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CVS Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CVS Health beats Walgreens Boots Alliance on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Walgreens Boots Alliance News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for WBA and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding {thisCompany.Symbol} and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
Walgreens Boots Alliance Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
This page (NASDAQ:WBA) was last updated on 1/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
