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).
Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) and Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 31.8% of Urban Outfitters shares are owned by 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.
Nordstrom presently has a consensus target price of $17.42, suggesting a potential downside of 21.19%. Urban Outfitters has a consensus target price of $43.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.09%. Given Nordstrom's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Urban Outfitters is more favorable than Nordstrom.
Urban Outfitters received 273 more outperform votes than Nordstrom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.78% of users gave Urban Outfitters an outperform vote while only 58.60% of users gave Nordstrom an outperform vote.
Urban Outfitters has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Nordstrom. Nordstrom is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Urban Outfitters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Urban Outfitters has a net margin of 5.66% compared to Urban Outfitters' net margin of -1.35%. Nordstrom's return on equity of 15.36% beat Urban Outfitters' return on equity.
In the previous week, Nordstrom had 32 more articles in the media than Urban Outfitters. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Nordstrom and 11 mentions for Urban Outfitters. Nordstrom's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Urban Outfitters' score of 0.40 indicating that Urban Outfitters is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nordstrom has a beta of 2.59, indicating that its share price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urban Outfitters has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Urban Outfitters beats Nordstrom on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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