VSCO vs. HBI, SGHC, OXM, AFYA, LEG, AMC, TV, BOWL, PTON, and PRDO
Should you be buying Victoria's Secret & Co. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Victoria's Secret & Co. include Hanesbrands (HBI), Super Group (SGHC), Oxford Industries (OXM), Afya (AFYA), Leggett & Platt (LEG), AMC Entertainment (AMC), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Bowlero (BOWL), Peloton Interactive (PTON), and Perdoceo Education (PRDO). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Hanesbrands (NYSE:HBI) and Victoria's Secret & Co. (NYSE:VSCO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Hanesbrands presently has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.60%. Victoria's Secret & Co. has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential downside of 18.77%. Given Victoria's Secret & Co.'s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Hanesbrands is more favorable than Victoria's Secret & Co..
Victoria's Secret & Co. has a net margin of 1.77% compared to Victoria's Secret & Co.'s net margin of -0.42%. Hanesbrands' return on equity of 56.40% beat Victoria's Secret & Co.'s return on equity.
Hanesbrands received 749 more outperform votes than Victoria's Secret & Co. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.73% of users gave Hanesbrands an outperform vote while only 16.35% of users gave Victoria's Secret & Co. an outperform vote.
80.3% of Hanesbrands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Victoria's Secret & Co. shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Hanesbrands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Victoria's Secret & Co. shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Hanesbrands has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Victoria's Secret & Co. has a beta of 2.05, meaning that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Victoria's Secret & Co. has higher revenue and earnings than Hanesbrands. Hanesbrands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Victoria's Secret & Co., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Victoria's Secret & Co. had 3 more articles in the media than Hanesbrands. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Victoria's Secret & Co. and 9 mentions for Hanesbrands. Hanesbrands' average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Victoria's Secret & Co.'s score of 0.41 indicating that Victoria's Secret & Co. is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Victoria's Secret & Co. beats Hanesbrands on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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