BBW vs. DENN, VLGEA, LE, BIGC, JMIA, BH, WOOF, NGVC, HEPS, and CRMT
Should you be buying Build-A-Bear Workshop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Build-A-Bear Workshop include Denny's (DENN), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Lands' End (LE), BigCommerce (BIGC), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), Biglari (BH), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), and America's Car-Mart (CRMT). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Denny's (NASDAQ:DENN) and Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE:BBW) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Denny's has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Build-A-Bear Workshop has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Build-A-Bear Workshop has a net margin of 10.86% compared to Build-A-Bear Workshop's net margin of 5.27%. Denny's' return on equity of 43.26% beat Build-A-Bear Workshop's return on equity.
In the previous week, Denny's had 45 more articles in the media than Build-A-Bear Workshop. MarketBeat recorded 48 mentions for Denny's and 3 mentions for Build-A-Bear Workshop. Denny's' average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Build-A-Bear Workshop's score of 0.25 indicating that Build-A-Bear Workshop is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Build-A-Bear Workshop received 47 more outperform votes than Denny's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.34% of users gave Build-A-Bear Workshop an outperform vote while only 61.54% of users gave Denny's an outperform vote.
Build-A-Bear Workshop has higher revenue and earnings than Denny's. Build-A-Bear Workshop is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Denny's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Denny's currently has a consensus target price of $11.42, suggesting a potential upside of 41.12%. Build-A-Bear Workshop has a consensus target price of $39.33, suggesting a potential upside of 31.33%. Given Build-A-Bear Workshop's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Denny's is more favorable than Build-A-Bear Workshop.
85.1% of Denny's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.3% of Build-A-Bear Workshop shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Denny's shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Build-A-Bear Workshop shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Build-A-Bear Workshop beats Denny's on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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