QRTEA vs. AKA, SFIX, DIBS, MYTE, DDL, HEPS, WISH, LITB, JMIA, and GCO
Should you be buying Qurate Retail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Qurate Retail include a.k.a. Brands (AKA), Stitch Fix (SFIX), 1stdibs.Com (DIBS), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), ContextLogic (WISH), LightInTheBox (LITB), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), and Genesco (GCO).
Qurate Retail (NASDAQ:QRTEA) and a.k.a. Brands (NYSE:AKA) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
Qurate Retail has a beta of 2.75, indicating that its stock price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, a.k.a. Brands has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, a.k.a. Brands had 5 more articles in the media than Qurate Retail. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for a.k.a. Brands and 1 mentions for Qurate Retail. a.k.a. Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Qurate Retail's score of 0.00 indicating that a.k.a. Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Qurate Retail has a net margin of -1.56% compared to a.k.a. Brands' net margin of -18.11%. Qurate Retail's return on equity of 23.19% beat a.k.a. Brands' return on equity.
a.k.a. Brands has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Qurate Retail. a.k.a. Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Qurate Retail, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Qurate Retail currently has a consensus price target of $1.10, suggesting a potential upside of 48.31%. a.k.a. Brands has a consensus price target of $14.50, suggesting a potential downside of 44.59%. Given Qurate Retail's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Qurate Retail is more favorable than a.k.a. Brands.
Qurate Retail received 820 more outperform votes than a.k.a. Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.28% of users gave Qurate Retail an outperform vote while only 31.15% of users gave a.k.a. Brands an outperform vote.
64.1% of Qurate Retail shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of a.k.a. Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 11.2% of Qurate Retail shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of a.k.a. Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Qurate Retail beats a.k.a. Brands on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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