HBI vs. BOWL, TV, MSGE, OXM, ATGE, MLKN, AFYA, CWH, SPHR, and FUN
Should you be buying Hanesbrands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hanesbrands include Bowlero (BOWL), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE), Oxford Industries (OXM), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), MillerKnoll (MLKN), Afya (AFYA), Camping World (CWH), Sphere Entertainment (SPHR), and Cedar Fair (FUN). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Bowlero (NYSE:BOWL) and Hanesbrands (NYSE:HBI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
68.1% of Bowlero shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.3% of Hanesbrands shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.5% of Bowlero shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Hanesbrands shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Bowlero has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hanesbrands. Hanesbrands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bowlero, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bowlero had 3 more articles in the media than Hanesbrands. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Bowlero and 6 mentions for Hanesbrands. Hanesbrands' average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Bowlero's score of 0.16 indicating that Bowlero is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bowlero has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hanesbrands has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bowlero presently has a consensus price target of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 53.71%. Hanesbrands has a consensus price target of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.61%. Given Hanesbrands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Bowlero is more favorable than Hanesbrands.
Hanesbrands received 744 more outperform votes than Bowlero when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.97% of users gave Bowlero an outperform vote while only 70.79% of users gave Hanesbrands an outperform vote.
Bowlero has a net margin of 6.33% compared to Bowlero's net margin of -0.31%. Hanesbrands' return on equity of 98.75% beat Bowlero's return on equity.
Summary
Bowlero beats Hanesbrands on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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