KIRK vs. RENT, YJ, GTIM, RAVE, BYU, RMCF, NXPL, HOUR, TAIT, and AHG
Should you be buying Kirkland's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kirkland's include Rent the Runway (RENT), Yunji (YJ), Good Times Restaurants (GTIM), Rave Restaurant Group (RAVE), BAIYU (BYU), Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (RMCF), NextPlat (NXPL), Hour Loop (HOUR), Taitron Components (TAIT), and Akso Health Group (AHG). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Rent the Runway (NASDAQ:RENT) and Kirkland's (NASDAQ:KIRK) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Rent the Runway presently has a consensus target price of $31.88, suggesting a potential upside of 134.03%. Kirkland's has a consensus target price of $4.88, suggesting a potential upside of 148.72%. Given Rent the Runway's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kirkland's is more favorable than Rent the Runway.
Kirkland's has a net margin of -5.92% compared to Kirkland's' net margin of -37.96%. Kirkland's' return on equity of 0.00% beat Rent the Runway's return on equity.
Kirkland's has higher revenue and earnings than Rent the Runway. Kirkland's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rent the Runway, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kirkland's had 10 more articles in the media than Rent the Runway. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Kirkland's and 3 mentions for Rent the Runway. Rent the Runway's average media sentiment score of 0.06 beat Kirkland's' score of 0.03 indicating that Kirkland's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rent the Runway has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kirkland's has a beta of 2.27, indicating that its share price is 127% more volatile than the S&P 500.
73.1% of Rent the Runway shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.4% of Kirkland's shares are held by institutional investors. 9.1% of Rent the Runway shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.5% of Kirkland's shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kirkland's received 146 more outperform votes than Rent the Runway when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.22% of users gave Kirkland's an outperform vote while only 66.90% of users gave Rent the Runway an outperform vote.
Summary
Kirkland's beats Rent the Runway on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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