CONN vs. PETS, NDLS, BGFV, OLB, FARM, BIRD, LVLU, LGCB, CATO, and BIG
Should you be buying Conn's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Conn's include PetMed Express (PETS), Noodles & Company (NDLS), Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV), The OLB Group (OLB), Farmer Bros. (FARM), Allbirds (BIRD), Lulu's Fashion Lounge (LVLU), Linkage Global (LGCB), Cato (CATO), and Big Lots (BIG). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
PetMed Express (NASDAQ:PETS) and Conn's (NASDAQ:CONN) 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 profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
PetMed Express currently has a consensus price target of $13.25, suggesting a potential upside of 184.95%. Conn's has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 97.74%. Given Conn's' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe PetMed Express is more favorable than Conn's.
In the previous week, Conn's had 10 more articles in the media than PetMed Express. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Conn's and 2 mentions for PetMed Express. Conn's' average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat PetMed Express' score of 0.01 indicating that PetMed Express is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PetMed Express has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Conn's. PetMed Express is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conn's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PetMed Express has a net margin of -2.92% compared to PetMed Express' net margin of -6.21%. Conn's' return on equity of -1.25% beat PetMed Express' return on equity.
PetMed Express has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conn's has a beta of 2.35, indicating that its share price is 135% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Conn's received 293 more outperform votes than PetMed Express when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.79% of users gave Conn's an outperform vote while only 45.13% of users gave PetMed Express an outperform vote.
73.3% of PetMed Express shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.0% of Conn's shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of PetMed Express shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Conn's shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
PetMed Express beats Conn's on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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