TLYS vs. CTRN, ZUMZ, CURV, DTC, DXLG, STKS, BARK, VRA, DIBS, and WISH
Should you be buying Tilly's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tilly's include Citi Trends (CTRN), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Torrid (CURV), Solo Brands (DTC), Destination XL Group (DXLG), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), BARK (BARK), Vera Bradley (VRA), 1stdibs.Com (DIBS), and ContextLogic (WISH). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Citi Trends (NASDAQ:CTRN) and Tilly's (NYSE:TLYS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Citi Trends has a beta of 2.43, meaning that its share price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tilly's has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Citi Trends presently has a consensus price target of $27.67, suggesting a potential upside of 26.79%. Tilly's has a consensus price target of $7.88, suggesting a potential upside of 31.69%. Given Citi Trends' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Tilly's is more favorable than Citi Trends.
76.4% of Tilly's shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Citi Trends shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.0% of Tilly's 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.
Citi Trends has a net margin of -1.60% compared to Citi Trends' net margin of -5.54%. Tilly's' return on equity of -6.74% beat Citi Trends' return on equity.
Tilly's received 191 more outperform votes than Citi Trends when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.56% of users gave Tilly's an outperform vote while only 55.44% of users gave Citi Trends an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Citi Trends had 11 more articles in the media than Tilly's. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Citi Trends and 0 mentions for Tilly's. Tilly's' average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Citi Trends' score of 0.00 indicating that Citi Trends is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Citi Trends has higher revenue and earnings than Tilly's. Citi Trends is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tilly's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Citi Trends beats Tilly's on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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