LE vs. DXLG, PLCE, VLGEA, DDL, HEPS, BBW, DENN, CRMT, NGVC, and MYTE
Should you be buying Lands' End stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lands' End include Destination XL Group (DXLG), Children's Place (PLCE), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), Denny's (DENN), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), and MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Destination XL Group (NASDAQ:DXLG) and Lands' End (NASDAQ:LE) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
Destination XL Group has a net margin of 5.34% compared to Destination XL Group's net margin of -8.87%. Lands' End's return on equity of 21.84% beat Destination XL Group's return on equity.
Destination XL Group currently has a consensus price target of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 36.36%. Lands' End has a consensus price target of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.01%. Given Lands' End's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Destination XL Group is more favorable than Lands' End.
In the previous week, Lands' End had 1 more articles in the media than Destination XL Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Lands' End and 5 mentions for Destination XL Group. Lands' End's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Destination XL Group's score of 0.75 indicating that Destination XL Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
73.5% of Destination XL Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.5% of Lands' End shares are held by institutional investors. 10.8% of Destination XL Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Lands' End shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Destination XL Group has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lands' End has a beta of 2.86, meaning that its share price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Destination XL Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lands' End. Lands' End is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Destination XL Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lands' End received 286 more outperform votes than Destination XL Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.98% of users gave Lands' End an outperform vote while only 54.55% of users gave Destination XL Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Destination XL Group beats Lands' End on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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