LL vs. JCTCF, ARKR, FOSL, TGL, LVLU, RENT, THCH, HOUR, RAVE, and NDLS
Should you be buying LL Flooring stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LL Flooring include Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTCF), Ark Restaurants (ARKR), Fossil Group (FOSL), Treasure Global (TGL), Lulu's Fashion Lounge (LVLU), Rent the Runway (RENT), TH International (THCH), Hour Loop (HOUR), Rave Restaurant Group (RAVE), and Noodles & Company (NDLS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Jewett-Cameron Trading (NASDAQ:JCTCF) and LL Flooring (NYSE:LL) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Jewett-Cameron Trading has a net margin of 3.46% compared to Jewett-Cameron Trading's net margin of -11.44%. LL Flooring's return on equity of 7.26% beat Jewett-Cameron Trading's return on equity.
Jewett-Cameron Trading has a beta of 0.33, suggesting that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LL Flooring has a beta of 1.89, suggesting that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Jewett-Cameron Trading has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LL Flooring. LL Flooring is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jewett-Cameron Trading, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LL Flooring received 419 more outperform votes than Jewett-Cameron Trading when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.93% of users gave Jewett-Cameron Trading an outperform vote while only 54.91% of users gave LL Flooring an outperform vote.
LL Flooring has a consensus price target of $3.25, indicating a potential upside of 111.73%. Given Jewett-Cameron Trading's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe LL Flooring is more favorable than Jewett-Cameron Trading.
In the previous week, LL Flooring had 8 more articles in the media than Jewett-Cameron Trading. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for LL Flooring and 2 mentions for Jewett-Cameron Trading. LL Flooring's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Jewett-Cameron Trading's score of 0.08 indicating that Jewett-Cameron Trading is being referred to more favorably in the media.
26.0% of Jewett-Cameron Trading shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.3% of LL Flooring shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Jewett-Cameron Trading shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of LL Flooring shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Jewett-Cameron Trading beats LL Flooring on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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