VIRC vs. EM, FLL, LVO, QSG, EVC, ESCA, ACU, ALTO, GMGI, and BRAG
Should you be buying Virco Mfg. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virco Mfg. include Smart Share Global (EM), Full House Resorts (FLL), LiveOne (LVO), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Entravision Communications (EVC), Escalade (ESCA), Acme United (ACU), Alto Ingredients (ALTO), Golden Matrix Group (GMGI), and Bragg Gaming Group (BRAG). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Smart Share Global (NYSE:EM) and Virco Mfg. (NASDAQ:VIRC) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, dividends and profitability.
Smart Share Global has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Virco Mfg. has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Smart Share Global currently has a consensus target price of $1.00, indicating a potential upside of 56.23%. Given Virco Mfg.'s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Smart Share Global is more favorable than Virco Mfg..
Virco Mfg. has a net margin of 8.14% compared to Virco Mfg.'s net margin of 2.93%. Smart Share Global's return on equity of 26.24% beat Virco Mfg.'s return on equity.
Virco Mfg. received 137 more outperform votes than Smart Share Global when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Smart Share Global an outperform vote while only 54.68% of users gave Virco Mfg. an outperform vote.
Virco Mfg. has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Smart Share Global. Virco Mfg. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smart Share Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
84.0% of Smart Share Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.0% of Virco Mfg. shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.8% of Smart Share Global shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Virco Mfg. shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Smart Share Global had 1 more articles in the media than Virco Mfg.. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Smart Share Global and 1 mentions for Virco Mfg.. Virco Mfg.'s average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Smart Share Global's score of 0.00 indicating that Smart Share Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Virco Mfg. beats Smart Share Global on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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