HVT vs. LOVE, BH, CHUY, NGVC, HEPS, TAST, VLGEA, LE, DDL, and BBW
Should you be buying Haverty Furniture Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Haverty Furniture Companies include Lovesac (LOVE), Biglari (BH), Chuy's (CHUY), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Lands' End (LE), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), and Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT) and Lovesac (NASDAQ:LOVE) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Haverty Furniture Companies has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lovesac has a beta of 2.78, meaning that its stock price is 178% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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 currently has a consensus price target of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 52.96%. Lovesac has a consensus price target of $35.25, suggesting a potential upside of 27.90%. Given Haverty Furniture Companies' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Haverty Furniture Companies is more favorable than Lovesac.
In the previous week, Lovesac had 3 more articles in the media than Haverty Furniture Companies. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Lovesac and 1 mentions for Haverty Furniture Companies. Lovesac's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Haverty Furniture Companies' score of 0.50 indicating that Lovesac is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
80.6% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Lovesac shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.1% of Lovesac shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Lovesac beats Haverty Furniture Companies on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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