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.
Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) and Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Nordstrom has a beta of 2.59, meaning that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urban Outfitters has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Urban Outfitters had 1 more articles in the media than Nordstrom. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Urban Outfitters and 13 mentions for Nordstrom. Urban Outfitters' average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Nordstrom's score of 0.54 indicating that Urban Outfitters is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nordstrom presently has a consensus price target of $16.69, indicating a potential downside of 21.45%. Urban Outfitters has a consensus price target of $39.75, indicating a potential downside of 3.52%. Given Urban Outfitters' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Urban Outfitters is more favorable than Nordstrom.
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.
88.7% of Nordstrom shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.6% of Urban Outfitters shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Nordstrom shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.8% of Urban Outfitters shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Urban Outfitters has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Urban Outfitters has a net margin of 5.58% compared to Nordstrom's net margin of 0.91%. Nordstrom's return on equity of 49.30% beat Urban Outfitters' return on equity.
Summary
Urban Outfitters beats Nordstrom on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Nordstrom News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for JWN and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding JWN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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.
Nordstrom Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
