KNDI vs. AAN, JAKK, CLAR, LCUT, APEI, TSQ, RCKY, EVC, GPRO, and EM
Should you be buying Kandi Technologies Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kandi Technologies Group include Aaron's (AAN), JAKKS Pacific (JAKK), Clarus (CLAR), Lifetime Brands (LCUT), American Public Education (APEI), Townsquare Media (TSQ), Rocky Brands (RCKY), Entravision Communications (EVC), GoPro (GPRO), and Smart Share Global (EM). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Aaron's (NYSE:AAN) and Kandi Technologies Group (NASDAQ:KNDI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
Aaron's has a net margin of 0.13% compared to Aaron's' net margin of 0.01%. Kandi Technologies Group's return on equity of 3.59% beat Aaron's' return on equity.
92.0% of Aaron's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.7% of Kandi Technologies Group shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Aaron's shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Kandi Technologies Group 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.
Aaron's presently has a consensus price target of $11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 54.57%. Given Kandi Technologies Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Aaron's is more favorable than Kandi Technologies Group.
In the previous week, Aaron's had 19 more articles in the media than Kandi Technologies Group. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Aaron's and 1 mentions for Kandi Technologies Group. Aaron's' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Kandi Technologies Group's score of -0.05 indicating that Kandi Technologies Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aaron's has higher revenue and earnings than Kandi Technologies Group. Aaron's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kandi Technologies Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aaron's has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kandi Technologies Group has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aaron's received 397 more outperform votes than Kandi Technologies Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.39% of users gave Aaron's an outperform vote while only 60.26% of users gave Kandi Technologies Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Aaron's beats Kandi Technologies Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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