BIRD vs. CATO, CONN, PLCE, PETS, BIG, BGFV, FAT, PSQH, TZOO, and RRGB
Should you be buying Allbirds stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allbirds include Cato (CATO), Conn's (CONN), Children's Place (PLCE), PetMed Express (PETS), Big Lots (BIG), Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV), FAT Brands (FAT), PSQ (PSQH), Travelzoo (TZOO), and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Allbirds (NASDAQ:BIRD) and Cato (NYSE:CATO) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Allbirds presently has a consensus target price of $0.97, indicating a potential upside of 45.21%. Given Allbirds' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Allbirds is more favorable than Cato.
44.1% of Allbirds shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.1% of Cato shares are held by institutional investors. 30.9% of Allbirds shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of Cato 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.
Allbirds has a beta of 1.79, indicating that its stock price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cato has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cato had 4 more articles in the media than Allbirds. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Cato and 7 mentions for Allbirds. Allbirds' average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Cato's score of 0.06 indicating that Allbirds is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cato has a net margin of -3.38% compared to Allbirds' net margin of -60.01%. Cato's return on equity of -11.11% beat Allbirds' return on equity.
Cato has higher revenue and earnings than Allbirds. Cato is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allbirds, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cato received 150 more outperform votes than Allbirds when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.66% of users gave Cato an outperform vote while only 30.67% of users gave Allbirds an outperform vote.
Summary
Cato beats Allbirds on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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