BYU vs. KIRK, NXPL, RAVE, GVH, RMCF, TAIT, GTIM, WBUY, JCTCF, and MOGU
Should you be buying BAIYU stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BAIYU include Kirkland's (KIRK), NextPlat (NXPL), Rave Restaurant Group (RAVE), Globavend (GVH), Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (RMCF), Taitron Components (TAIT), Good Times Restaurants (GTIM), Webuy Global (WBUY), Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTCF), and MOGU (MOGU). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Kirkland's (NASDAQ:KIRK) and BAIYU (NASDAQ:BYU) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.
15.4% of Kirkland's shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.5% of Kirkland's shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of BAIYU shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Kirkland's currently has a consensus target price of $4.88, indicating a potential upside of 155.91%. Given BAIYU's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Kirkland's is more favorable than BAIYU.
Kirkland's received 429 more outperform votes than BAIYU when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Kirkland's had 11 more articles in the media than BAIYU. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Kirkland's and 1 mentions for BAIYU. BAIYU's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Kirkland's' score of 0.00 indicating that Kirkland's is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BAIYU has a net margin of 0.33% compared to BAIYU's net margin of -5.92%. Kirkland's' return on equity of 0.12% beat BAIYU's return on equity.
Kirkland's has a beta of 2.27, indicating that its stock price is 127% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BAIYU has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BAIYU has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kirkland's. BAIYU is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kirkland's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Kirkland's beats BAIYU on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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