MHK vs. LBRDA, WSC, LBRDK, AS, DLB, CROX, TAL, MTN, HRB, and LBTYK
Should you be buying Mohawk Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mohawk Industries include Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), WillScot Mobile Mini (WSC), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Amer Sports (AS), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), Crocs (CROX), TAL Education Group (TAL), Vail Resorts (MTN), H&R Block (HRB), and Liberty Global (LBTYK). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Mohawk Industries (NYSE:MHK) and Liberty Broadband (NASDAQ:LBRDA) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Liberty Broadband has a net margin of 70.13% compared to Mohawk Industries' net margin of -3.77%. Liberty Broadband's return on equity of 7.76% beat Mohawk Industries' return on equity.
79.0% of Mohawk Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.3% of Liberty Broadband shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.1% of Mohawk Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.7% of Liberty Broadband shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Mohawk Industries had 23 more articles in the media than Liberty Broadband. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Mohawk Industries and 3 mentions for Liberty Broadband. Mohawk Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Liberty Broadband's score of -0.40 indicating that Mohawk Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mohawk Industries received 287 more outperform votes than Liberty Broadband when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.35% of users gave Liberty Broadband an outperform vote while only 66.06% of users gave Mohawk Industries an outperform vote.
Mohawk Industries currently has a consensus target price of $118.75, suggesting a potential upside of 2.86%. Liberty Broadband has a consensus target price of $110.00, suggesting a potential upside of 121.95%. Given Liberty Broadband's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Liberty Broadband is more favorable than Mohawk Industries.
Liberty Broadband has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Mohawk Industries. Mohawk Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty Broadband, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mohawk Industries has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Broadband has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Liberty Broadband beats Mohawk Industries on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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