PSMT vs. OLLI, BIG, MNSO, FIVE, SG, EAT, TGLS, ARCO, KSS, and BLMN
Should you be buying PriceSmart stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PriceSmart include Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), Big Lots (BIG), MINISO Group (MNSO), Five Below (FIVE), Sweetgreen (SG), Brinker International (EAT), Tecnoglass (TGLS), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Kohl's (KSS), and Bloomin' Brands (BLMN).
Ollie's Bargain Outlet (NASDAQ:OLLI) and PriceSmart (NASDAQ:PSMT) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Ollie's Bargain Outlet has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PriceSmart. PriceSmart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ollie's Bargain Outlet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ollie's Bargain Outlet currently has a consensus target price of $87.08, indicating a potential upside of 11.87%. PriceSmart has a consensus target price of $90.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.02%. Given PriceSmart's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ollie's Bargain Outlet is more favorable than PriceSmart.
80.5% of PriceSmart shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Ollie's Bargain Outlet shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.6% of PriceSmart shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ollie's Bargain Outlet has a net margin of 8.63% compared to Ollie's Bargain Outlet's net margin of 2.62%. PriceSmart's return on equity of 12.55% beat Ollie's Bargain Outlet's return on equity.
Ollie's Bargain Outlet has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PriceSmart has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ollie's Bargain Outlet had 6 more articles in the media than PriceSmart. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Ollie's Bargain Outlet and 7 mentions for PriceSmart. Ollie's Bargain Outlet's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat PriceSmart's score of 0.98 indicating that PriceSmart is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ollie's Bargain Outlet received 188 more outperform votes than PriceSmart when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.17% of users gave PriceSmart an outperform vote while only 64.46% of users gave Ollie's Bargain Outlet an outperform vote.
Summary
Ollie's Bargain Outlet beats PriceSmart on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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