CSV vs. EWCZ, CBUS, SENEA, LMNR, BYND, DJCO, LWAY, MED, VGII, and CVGW
Should you be buying Carriage Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carriage Services include European Wax Center (EWCZ), Cibus (CBUS), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Limoneira (LMNR), Beyond Meat (BYND), Daily Journal (DJCO), Lifeway Foods (LWAY), Medifast (MED), Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II (VGII), and Calavo Growers (CVGW). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
European Wax Center (NASDAQ:EWCZ) and Carriage Services (NYSE:CSV) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings and valuation.
Carriage Services received 269 more outperform votes than European Wax Center when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.59% of users gave Carriage Services an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave European Wax Center an outperform vote.
European Wax Center presently has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 46.43%. Carriage Services has a consensus price target of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 34.62%. Given Carriage Services' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe European Wax Center is more favorable than Carriage Services.
In the previous week, Carriage Services had 22 more articles in the media than European Wax Center. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Carriage Services and 2 mentions for European Wax Center. Carriage Services' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat European Wax Center's score of 0.51 indicating that European Wax Center is being referred to more favorably in the media.
82.1% of European Wax Center shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.5% of Carriage Services shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of European Wax Center shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.1% of Carriage Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
European Wax Center has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carriage Services has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Carriage Services has higher revenue and earnings than European Wax Center. Carriage Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than European Wax Center, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Carriage Services has a net margin of 8.08% compared to Carriage Services' net margin of 4.04%. European Wax Center's return on equity of 22.58% beat Carriage Services' return on equity.
Summary
Carriage Services beats European Wax Center on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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