W vs. NSIT, MTCH, CAVA, LEVI, GPS, TPX, FBIN, FIVE, SFM, and MNSO
Should you be buying Wayfair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wayfair include Insight Enterprises (NSIT), Match Group (MTCH), CAVA Group (CAVA), Levi Strauss & Co. (LEVI), GAP (GPS), Tempur Sealy International (TPX), Fortune Brands Innovations (FBIN), Five Below (FIVE), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), and MINISO Group (MNSO). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Wayfair (NYSE:W) and Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ:NSIT) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
In the previous week, Insight Enterprises had 2 more articles in the media than Wayfair. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Insight Enterprises and 29 mentions for Wayfair. Insight Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Wayfair's score of 0.65 indicating that Insight Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wayfair received 555 more outperform votes than Insight Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.94% of users gave Wayfair an outperform vote while only 56.61% of users gave Insight Enterprises an outperform vote.
89.7% of Wayfair shares are held by institutional investors. 26.8% of Wayfair shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Insight Enterprises shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Wayfair has a beta of 3.32, suggesting that its share price is 232% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Insight Enterprises has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insight Enterprises has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Wayfair. Wayfair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Insight Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insight Enterprises has a net margin of 3.23% compared to Wayfair's net margin of -5.28%. Insight Enterprises' return on equity of 21.34% beat Wayfair's return on equity.
Wayfair currently has a consensus target price of $77.64, indicating a potential upside of 8.94%. Insight Enterprises has a consensus target price of $204.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.49%. Given Wayfair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Wayfair is more favorable than Insight Enterprises.
Summary
Wayfair beats Insight Enterprises on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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