LOVE vs. HVT, MYTE, ZUMZ, DDL, CRMT, QRTEA, BBW, NGVC, DENN, and GENK
Should you be buying Lovesac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lovesac include Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), Qurate Retail (QRTEA), Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Denny's (DENN), and GEN Restaurant Group (GENK). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Lovesac (NASDAQ:LOVE) and Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
Haverty Furniture Companies received 237 more outperform votes than Lovesac when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.39% of users gave Lovesac an outperform vote while only 64.47% of users gave Haverty Furniture Companies an outperform vote.
Haverty Furniture Companies has a net margin of 5.64% compared to Lovesac's net margin of 3.39%. Haverty Furniture Companies' return on equity of 14.98% beat Lovesac's return on equity.
91.3% of Lovesac shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.6% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 12.1% of Lovesac shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Haverty Furniture Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Lovesac. Haverty Furniture Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lovesac, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lovesac has a beta of 2.78, meaning that its share price is 178% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Haverty Furniture Companies has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lovesac currently has a consensus target price of $35.25, suggesting a potential upside of 39.27%. Haverty Furniture Companies has a consensus target price of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 57.56%. Given Haverty Furniture Companies' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Haverty Furniture Companies is more favorable than Lovesac.
In the previous week, Haverty Furniture Companies had 8 more articles in the media than Lovesac. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Haverty Furniture Companies and 4 mentions for Lovesac. Lovesac's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Haverty Furniture Companies' score of -0.05 indicating that Lovesac is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Haverty Furniture Companies beats Lovesac on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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