LOVE vs. HVT, MYTE, ZUMZ, DDL, CRMT, QRTEA, BBW, NGVC, DENN, and GENK
Should you be buying Lovesac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lovesac include Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), Qurate Retail (QRTEA), Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Denny's (DENN), and GEN Restaurant Group (GENK). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT) and Lovesac (NASDAQ:LOVE) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.
In the previous week, Haverty Furniture Companies had 2 more articles in the media than Lovesac. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Haverty Furniture Companies and 5 mentions for Lovesac. Haverty Furniture Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Lovesac's score of -0.05 indicating that Lovesac is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Haverty Furniture Companies received 237 more outperform votes than Lovesac when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.39% of users gave Lovesac an outperform vote while only 64.47% of users gave Haverty Furniture Companies an outperform vote.
Haverty Furniture Companies has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lovesac has a beta of 2.78, indicating that its share price is 178% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Haverty Furniture Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Lovesac. Haverty Furniture Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lovesac, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Haverty Furniture Companies has a net margin of 5.64% compared to Haverty Furniture Companies' net margin of 3.39%. Lovesac's return on equity of 14.98% beat Haverty Furniture Companies' return on equity.
Haverty Furniture Companies currently has a consensus price target of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 52.49%. Lovesac has a consensus price target of $35.25, suggesting a potential upside of 32.87%. Given Lovesac's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Haverty Furniture Companies is more favorable than Lovesac.
80.6% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Lovesac shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.9% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.1% of Lovesac shares are owned 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.
Summary
Haverty Furniture Companies beats Lovesac on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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