URBN vs. JWN, LE, ANF, GPS, AEO, FL, BKE, CAL, GES, and SCVL
Should you be buying Urban Outfitters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Urban Outfitters include Nordstrom (JWN), Lands' End (LE), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), GAP (GPS), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Foot Locker (FL), Buckle (BKE), Caleres (CAL), Guess? (GES), and Shoe Carnival (SCVL).
Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) and Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Urban Outfitters presently has a consensus price target of $43.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.04%. Nordstrom has a consensus price target of $16.69, suggesting a potential downside of 22.47%. Given Urban Outfitters' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Urban Outfitters is more favorable than Nordstrom.
Urban Outfitters has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nordstrom has a beta of 2.59, meaning that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Urban Outfitters received 273 more outperform votes than Nordstrom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.81% of users gave Urban Outfitters an outperform vote while only 58.74% of users gave Nordstrom an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Urban Outfitters had 6 more articles in the media than Nordstrom. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Urban Outfitters and 37 mentions for Nordstrom. Urban Outfitters' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Nordstrom's score of 0.56 indicating that Urban Outfitters is being referred to more favorably in the media.
77.6% of Urban Outfitters shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of Nordstrom shares are held by institutional investors. 31.8% of Urban Outfitters shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Nordstrom shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Urban Outfitters has a net margin of 5.66% compared to Nordstrom's net margin of 0.91%. Nordstrom's return on equity of 49.30% beat Urban Outfitters' return on equity.
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.
Summary
Urban Outfitters beats Nordstrom on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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