CULP vs. CRWS, GORV, NFTG, BODI, BEDU, BZFD, NTZ, WFCF, CMLS, and CLOE
Should you be buying Culp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Culp include Crown Crafts (CRWS), Lazydays (GORV), NFT Gaming (NFTG), Beachbody (BODI), Bright Scholar Education (BEDU), BuzzFeed (BZFD), Natuzzi (NTZ), Where Food Comes From (WFCF), Cumulus Media (CMLS), and Clover Leaf Capital (CLOE). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Culp (NYSE:CULP) and Crown Crafts (NASDAQ:CRWS) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, risk and media sentiment.
Culp has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown Crafts has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Crown Crafts has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Culp. Culp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown Crafts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Culp had 7 more articles in the media than Crown Crafts. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Culp and 3 mentions for Crown Crafts. Crown Crafts' average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Culp's score of 0.33 indicating that Crown Crafts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Culp received 48 more outperform votes than Crown Crafts when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Crown Crafts an outperform vote while only 52.47% of users gave Culp an outperform vote.
Crown Crafts has a net margin of 5.44% compared to Culp's net margin of -5.75%. Crown Crafts' return on equity of 10.02% beat Culp's return on equity.
75.1% of Culp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.2% of Crown Crafts shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.6% of Culp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Crown Crafts shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Crown Crafts beats Culp on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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