BIG vs. FATBB, CATO, RRGB, BIRD, CONN, PLCE, PETS, PSQH, FAT, and CBD
Should you be buying Big Lots stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Big Lots include FAT Brands (FATBB), Cato (CATO), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), Allbirds (BIRD), Conn's (CONN), Children's Place (PLCE), PetMed Express (PETS), PSQ (PSQH), FAT Brands (FAT), and Companhia Brasileira De Distribuicao (CBD). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Big Lots (NYSE:BIG) and FAT Brands (NASDAQ:FATBB) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk and dividends.
Big Lots currently has a consensus price target of $5.25, indicating a potential upside of 51.30%. Given Big Lots' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Big Lots is more favorable than FAT Brands.
Big Lots received 671 more outperform votes than FAT Brands when rated by MarketBeat users.
FAT Brands has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Big Lots. FAT Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Big Lots, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Big Lots had 3 more articles in the media than FAT Brands. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Big Lots and 3 mentions for FAT Brands. FAT Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Big Lots' score of 0.27 indicating that FAT Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
76.0% of Big Lots shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Big Lots shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 59.9% of FAT Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Big Lots has a net margin of -10.20% compared to FAT Brands' net margin of -18.75%. FAT Brands' return on equity of 0.00% beat Big Lots' return on equity.
Big Lots has a beta of 2.3, meaning that its stock price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FAT Brands has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Big Lots beats FAT Brands on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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