PLBY vs. LEE, KUKE, UONEK, NHTC, CURI, CLOE, WFCF, NTZ, BZFD, and BEDU
Should you be buying PLBY Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PLBY Group include Lee Enterprises (LEE), Kuke Music (KUKE), Urban One (UONEK), Natural Health Trends (NHTC), CuriosityStream (CURI), Clover Leaf Capital (CLOE), Where Food Comes From (WFCF), Natuzzi (NTZ), BuzzFeed (BZFD), and Bright Scholar Education (BEDU).
Lee Enterprises (NYSE:LEE) and PLBY Group (NASDAQ:PLBY) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
39.2% of Lee Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.5% of PLBY Group shares are held by institutional investors. 11.4% of Lee Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.0% of PLBY Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lee Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than PLBY Group. Lee Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PLBY Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lee Enterprises received 171 more outperform votes than PLBY Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.31% of users gave PLBY Group an outperform vote while only 62.42% of users gave Lee Enterprises an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Lee Enterprises had 7 more articles in the media than PLBY Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Lee Enterprises and 0 mentions for PLBY Group. PLBY Group's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Lee Enterprises' score of 0.00 indicating that Lee Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lee Enterprises has a net margin of -1.88% compared to Lee Enterprises' net margin of -124.32%. PLBY Group's return on equity of -67.53% beat Lee Enterprises' return on equity.
PLBY Group has a consensus price target of $2.75, suggesting a potential upside of 204.61%. Given Lee Enterprises' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PLBY Group is more favorable than Lee Enterprises.
Lee Enterprises has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PLBY Group has a beta of 2.49, suggesting that its share price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lee Enterprises beats PLBY Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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