CVS vs. WBA, YI, PETS, CJJD, PDD, BABA, MCD, BKNG, LOW, and TJX
Should you be buying CVS Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CVS Health include Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), 111 (YI), PetMed Express (PETS), China Jo-Jo Drugstores (CJJD), PDD (PDD), Alibaba Group (BABA), McDonald's (MCD), Booking (BKNG), Lowe's Companies (LOW), and TJX Companies (TJX).
CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) and Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation and media sentiment.
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.
CVS Health received 246 more outperform votes than Walgreens Boots Alliance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.93% of users gave CVS Health an outperform vote while only 66.10% of users gave Walgreens Boots Alliance an outperform vote.
CVS Health has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Walgreens Boots Alliance has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CVS Health pays an annual dividend of $2.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Walgreens Boots Alliance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. CVS Health pays out 46.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Walgreens Boots Alliance pays out -14.3% 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.
80.7% of CVS Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of CVS Health shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.4% of Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, CVS Health had 19 more articles in the media than Walgreens Boots Alliance. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for CVS Health and 19 mentions for Walgreens Boots Alliance. Walgreens Boots Alliance's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat CVS Health's score of 0.47 indicating that Walgreens Boots Alliance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CVS Health presently has a consensus target price of $76.75, suggesting a potential upside of 43.11%. Walgreens Boots Alliance has a consensus target price of $24.36, suggesting a potential upside of 58.37%. Given Walgreens Boots Alliance's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Walgreens Boots Alliance is more favorable than CVS Health.
CVS Health has a net margin of 2.03% compared to Walgreens Boots Alliance's net margin of -4.18%. CVS Health's return on equity of 13.53% beat Walgreens Boots Alliance's return on equity.
Summary
CVS Health beats Walgreens Boots Alliance on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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