LZB vs. LEG, AMWD, PRDO, MSGE, PTON, OSW, GES, OXM, VSCO, and CAL
Should you be buying La-Z-Boy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of La-Z-Boy include Leggett & Platt (LEG), American Woodmark (AMWD), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE), Peloton Interactive (PTON), OneSpaWorld (OSW), Guess? (GES), Oxford Industries (OXM), Victoria's Secret & Co. (VSCO), and Caleres (CAL). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Leggett & Platt (NYSE:LEG) and La-Z-Boy (NYSE:LZB) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
La-Z-Boy has a net margin of 5.73% compared to La-Z-Boy's net margin of -3.44%. Leggett & Platt's return on equity of 13.55% beat La-Z-Boy's return on equity.
Leggett & Platt received 5 more outperform votes than La-Z-Boy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.83% of users gave La-Z-Boy an outperform vote while only 56.72% of users gave Leggett & Platt an outperform vote.
La-Z-Boy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Leggett & Platt. Leggett & Platt is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than La-Z-Boy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
64.2% of Leggett & Platt shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.6% of La-Z-Boy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Leggett & Platt shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of La-Z-Boy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Leggett & Platt pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.2%. La-Z-Boy pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Leggett & Platt pays out -158.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. La-Z-Boy pays out 29.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. La-Z-Boy has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Leggett & Platt is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Leggett & Platt presently has a consensus price target of $13.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.47%. Given La-Z-Boy's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Leggett & Platt is more favorable than La-Z-Boy.
In the previous week, Leggett & Platt had 8 more articles in the media than La-Z-Boy. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Leggett & Platt and 4 mentions for La-Z-Boy. Leggett & Platt's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat La-Z-Boy's score of 0.33 indicating that La-Z-Boy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Leggett & Platt has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, La-Z-Boy has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
La-Z-Boy beats Leggett & Platt on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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