EXPE vs. BBY, WBA, YUMC, DKS, DRI, XPO, DPZ, CASY, BURL, and ULTA
Should you be buying Expedia Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Expedia Group include Best Buy (BBY), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Yum China (YUMC), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Darden Restaurants (DRI), XPO (XPO), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Burlington Stores (BURL), and Ulta Beauty (ULTA).
Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) and Expedia Group (NASDAQ:EXPE) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
Best Buy has higher revenue and earnings than Expedia Group. Best Buy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Expedia Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
81.0% of Best Buy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Expedia Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Best Buy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of Expedia Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Expedia Group has a net margin of 6.18% compared to Expedia Group's net margin of 2.86%. Expedia Group's return on equity of 48.45% beat Best Buy's return on equity.
In the previous week, Expedia Group had 10 more articles in the media than Best Buy. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Expedia Group and 7 mentions for Best Buy. Expedia Group's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Best Buy's score of 0.46 indicating that Best Buy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Best Buy received 176 more outperform votes than Expedia Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.97% of users gave Best Buy an outperform vote while only 64.37% of users gave Expedia Group an outperform vote.
Best Buy has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Expedia Group has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its stock price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Best Buy presently has a consensus target price of $84.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.07%. Expedia Group has a consensus target price of $149.12, suggesting a potential upside of 31.44%. Given Best Buy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Expedia Group is more favorable than Best Buy.
Summary
Best Buy and Expedia Group tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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