W vs. NSIT, CNXN, ANF, BECN, GLBE, SFM, AN, M, LAD, and ZGN
Should you be buying Wayfair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wayfair include Insight Enterprises (NSIT), PC Connection (CNXN), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN), Global-E Online (GLBE), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), AutoNation (AN), Macy's (M), Lithia Motors (LAD), and Ermenegildo Zegna (ZGN). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ:NSIT) and Wayfair (NYSE:W) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
In the previous week, Wayfair had 34 more articles in the media than Insight Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for Wayfair and 18 mentions for Insight Enterprises. Insight Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Wayfair's score of 0.15 indicating that Wayfair is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
89.7% of Wayfair shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Insight Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.8% of Wayfair shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Insight Enterprises has a net margin of 3.07% compared to Insight Enterprises' net margin of -6.15%. Wayfair's return on equity of 20.64% beat Insight Enterprises' return on equity.
Insight Enterprises has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wayfair has a beta of 3.32, suggesting that its stock price is 232% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insight Enterprises has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Wayfair. Wayfair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Insight Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wayfair received 553 more outperform votes than Insight Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.06% of users gave Wayfair an outperform vote while only 56.67% of users gave Insight Enterprises an outperform vote.
Insight Enterprises currently has a consensus target price of $198.67, indicating a potential upside of 11.35%. Wayfair has a consensus target price of $76.21, indicating a potential upside of 29.91%. Given Insight Enterprises' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Wayfair is more favorable than Insight Enterprises.
Summary
Wayfair beats Insight Enterprises on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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