HVT vs. LOVE, ARHS, TITN, CURV, CHUY, TAST, DBI, WOOF, MOV, and JMIA
Should you be buying Haverty Furniture Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Haverty Furniture Companies include Lovesac (LOVE), Arhaus (ARHS), Titan Machinery (TITN), Torrid (CURV), Chuy's (CHUY), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Designer Brands (DBI), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), Movado Group (MOV), and Jumia Technologies (JMIA). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT) and Lovesac (NASDAQ:LOVE) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.
Haverty Furniture Companies has a net margin of 5.64% compared to Lovesac's net margin of 3.39%. Haverty Furniture Companies' return on equity of 14.94% beat Lovesac's return on equity.
Haverty Furniture Companies presently has a consensus price target of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 56.96%. Lovesac has a consensus price target of $35.25, suggesting a potential upside of 50.77%. Given Haverty Furniture Companies' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Haverty Furniture Companies is more favorable than Lovesac.
In the previous week, Haverty Furniture Companies had 8 more articles in the media than Lovesac. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Haverty Furniture Companies and 6 mentions for Lovesac. Lovesac's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Haverty Furniture Companies' score of -0.17 indicating that Lovesac is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Haverty Furniture Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Lovesac. Haverty Furniture Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lovesac, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Haverty Furniture Companies received 237 more outperform votes than Lovesac when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.39% of users gave Lovesac an outperform vote while only 64.47% of users gave Haverty Furniture Companies an outperform vote.
Haverty Furniture Companies has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lovesac has a beta of 2.78, suggesting that its stock price is 178% more volatile than the S&P 500.
80.6% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Lovesac shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.1% of Lovesac shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Haverty Furniture Companies beats Lovesac on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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