EWCZ vs. XPOF, RICK, LIND, CSV, LESL, BIOX, OTLY, LVRO, AVO, and BRCC
Should you be buying European Wax Center stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of European Wax Center include Xponential Fitness (XPOF), RCI Hospitality (RICK), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), Carriage Services (CSV), Leslie's (LESL), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Oatly Group (OTLY), Lavoro (LVRO), Mission Produce (AVO), and BRC (BRCC).
Xponential Fitness (NYSE:XPOF) and European Wax Center (NASDAQ:EWCZ) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Xponential Fitness has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, European Wax Center has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Xponential Fitness had 21 more articles in the media than European Wax Center. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Xponential Fitness and 1 mentions for European Wax Center. Xponential Fitness' average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat European Wax Center's score of 0.58 indicating that European Wax Center is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
European Wax Center has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Xponential Fitness. Xponential Fitness is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than European Wax Center, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
European Wax Center has a net margin of 4.04% compared to European Wax Center's net margin of 1.90%. Xponential Fitness' return on equity of 6.69% beat European Wax Center's return on equity.
Xponential Fitness currently has a consensus price target of $21.94, suggesting a potential upside of 79.58%. European Wax Center has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 51.79%. Given European Wax Center's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Xponential Fitness is more favorable than European Wax Center.
58.6% of Xponential Fitness shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.1% of European Wax Center shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.8% of Xponential Fitness shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of European Wax Center shares are owned by company 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.
Xponential Fitness received 11 more outperform votes than European Wax Center when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.52% of users gave Xponential Fitness an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave European Wax Center an outperform vote.
Summary
Xponential Fitness beats European Wax Center on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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