BYON vs. HNST, AMRK, ACEL, GDEN, NGMS, WWW, IMAX, SP, GTN.A, and RGR
Should you be buying Beyond stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Beyond include Honest (HNST), A-Mark Precious Metals (AMRK), Accel Entertainment (ACEL), Golden Entertainment (GDEN), NeoGames (NGMS), Wolverine World Wide (WWW), IMAX (IMAX), SP Plus (SP), Gray Television (GTN.A), and Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Beyond (NYSE:BYON) and Honest (NASDAQ:HNST) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
Honest has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Beyond. Honest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Beyond, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Beyond has a beta of 3.92, indicating that its stock price is 292% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Honest has a beta of 1.91, indicating that its stock price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Honest has a net margin of -6.27% compared to Beyond's net margin of -23.67%. Honest's return on equity of -17.44% beat Beyond's return on equity.
Beyond presently has a consensus price target of $32.83, indicating a potential upside of 94.74%. Honest has a consensus price target of $4.55, indicating a potential upside of 43.53%. Given Beyond's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Beyond is more favorable than Honest.
In the previous week, Beyond had 32 more articles in the media than Honest. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for Beyond and 13 mentions for Honest. Honest's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Beyond's score of -0.08 indicating that Honest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
76.3% of Beyond shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of Honest shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Beyond shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of Honest shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Honest received 8 more outperform votes than Beyond when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.00% of users gave Beyond an outperform vote while only 35.00% of users gave Honest an outperform vote.
Summary
Beyond and Honest tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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