KIRK vs. YJ, RENT, NXPL, BYU, GVH, RAVE, RMCF, GTIM, TAIT, and WBUY
Should you be buying Kirkland's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kirkland's include Yunji (YJ), Rent the Runway (RENT), NextPlat (NXPL), BAIYU (BYU), Globavend (GVH), Rave Restaurant Group (RAVE), Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (RMCF), Good Times Restaurants (GTIM), Taitron Components (TAIT), and Webuy Global (WBUY). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Kirkland's (NASDAQ:KIRK) and Yunji (NASDAQ:YJ) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends and earnings.
Kirkland's has a beta of 2.27, indicating that its stock price is 127% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yunji has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Yunji has higher revenue and earnings than Kirkland's. Kirkland's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yunji, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kirkland's has a net margin of -5.92% compared to Yunji's net margin of -25.69%. Yunji's return on equity of -13.13% beat Kirkland's' return on equity.
15.4% of Kirkland's shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.5% of Kirkland's shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 45.3% of Yunji shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Kirkland's received 387 more outperform votes than Yunji when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.22% of users gave Kirkland's an outperform vote while only 56.76% of users gave Yunji an outperform vote.
Kirkland's presently has a consensus price target of $4.88, suggesting a potential upside of 155.91%. Given Kirkland's' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kirkland's is more favorable than Yunji.
In the previous week, Kirkland's had 11 more articles in the media than Yunji. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Kirkland's and 1 mentions for Yunji. Kirkland's' average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Yunji's score of 0.00 indicating that Kirkland's is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Kirkland's beats Yunji on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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