AGS vs. FNKO, REAL, RICK, FUBO, XPOF, ONEW, WOW, LIND, UTI, and JOUT
Should you be buying PlayAGS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PlayAGS include Funko (FNKO), RealReal (REAL), RCI Hospitality (RICK), fuboTV (FUBO), Xponential Fitness (XPOF), OneWater Marine (ONEW), WideOpenWest (WOW), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), and Johnson Outdoors (JOUT). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Funko (NASDAQ:FNKO) and PlayAGS (NYSE:AGS) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
PlayAGS has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Funko. Funko is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PlayAGS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Funko presently has a consensus price target of $9.08, indicating a potential upside of 9.57%. PlayAGS has a consensus price target of $13.83, indicating a potential upside of 19.67%. Given Funko's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PlayAGS is more favorable than Funko.
99.2% of Funko shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.4% of PlayAGS shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of Funko shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of PlayAGS shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Funko received 22 more outperform votes than PlayAGS when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.85% of users gave PlayAGS an outperform vote while only 59.55% of users gave Funko an outperform vote.
PlayAGS has a net margin of 1.38% compared to PlayAGS's net margin of -11.46%. Funko's return on equity of 7.71% beat PlayAGS's return on equity.
In the previous week, Funko had 6 more articles in the media than PlayAGS. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Funko and 14 mentions for PlayAGS. Funko's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat PlayAGS's score of 0.50 indicating that PlayAGS is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Funko has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PlayAGS has a beta of 2.38, suggesting that its stock price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PlayAGS beats Funko on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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