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.
JD.com (NASDAQ:JD) and Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ:ULTA) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
16.0% of JD.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of JD.com shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Ulta Beauty shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
JD.com has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ulta Beauty has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
JD.com currently has a consensus target price of $36.33, indicating a potential upside of 6.02%. Ulta Beauty has a consensus target price of $539.55, indicating a potential upside of 34.54%. Given Ulta Beauty's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ulta Beauty is more favorable than JD.com.
Ulta Beauty has a net margin of 11.52% compared to JD.com's net margin of 2.22%. Ulta Beauty's return on equity of 61.64% beat JD.com's return on equity.
In the previous week, JD.com had 28 more articles in the media than Ulta Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 62 mentions for JD.com and 34 mentions for Ulta Beauty. Ulta Beauty's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat JD.com's score of 0.25 indicating that Ulta Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ulta Beauty received 265 more outperform votes than JD.com when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.35% of users gave Ulta Beauty an outperform vote while only 66.60% of users gave JD.com an outperform vote.
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.
Summary
Ulta Beauty beats JD.com on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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