LCUT vs. EML, ACU, SCX, HBB, LANV, AAN, GPRO, CLAR, RCKY, and WEYS
Should you be buying Lifetime Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lifetime Brands include Eastern (EML), Acme United (ACU), L.S. Starrett (SCX), Hamilton Beach Brands (HBB), Lanvin Group (LANV), Aaron's (AAN), GoPro (GPRO), Clarus (CLAR), Rocky Brands (RCKY), and Weyco Group (WEYS).
Lifetime Brands (NASDAQ:LCUT) and Eastern (NASDAQ:EML) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk and institutional ownership.
Eastern has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lifetime Brands. Lifetime Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastern, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lifetime Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Eastern pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Lifetime Brands pays out -63.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eastern pays out 27.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Lifetime Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Lifetime Brands had 2 more articles in the media than Eastern. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Lifetime Brands and 7 mentions for Eastern. Lifetime Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Eastern's score of 0.55 indicating that Lifetime Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
40.6% of Lifetime Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of Eastern shares are owned by institutional investors. 43.3% of Lifetime Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of Eastern shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lifetime Brands currently has a consensus price target of $12.75, suggesting a potential upside of 13.84%. Given Lifetime Brands' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lifetime Brands is more favorable than Eastern.
Lifetime Brands received 53 more outperform votes than Eastern when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 79.82% of users gave Eastern an outperform vote while only 65.63% of users gave Lifetime Brands an outperform vote.
Lifetime Brands has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastern has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Eastern has a net margin of 3.69% compared to Lifetime Brands' net margin of -0.86%. Eastern's return on equity of 8.44% beat Lifetime Brands' return on equity.
Summary
Lifetime Brands beats Eastern on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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