WHR vs. SN, BYD, VFC, COLM, PLNT, NXST, GIL, BC, IQ, and RRR
Should you be buying Whirlpool stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Whirlpool include SharkNinja (SN), Boyd Gaming (BYD), V.F. (VFC), Columbia Sportswear (COLM), Planet Fitness (PLNT), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), Gildan Activewear (GIL), Brunswick (BC), iQIYI (IQ), and Red Rock Resorts (RRR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
SharkNinja (NYSE:SN) and Whirlpool (NYSE:WHR) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Whirlpool received 603 more outperform votes than SharkNinja when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 90.91% of users gave SharkNinja an outperform vote while only 64.59% of users gave Whirlpool an outperform vote.
34.8% of SharkNinja shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Whirlpool shares are held by institutional investors. 11.1% of SharkNinja shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Whirlpool shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SharkNinja has a net margin of 3.93% compared to SharkNinja's net margin of 2.07%. SharkNinja's return on equity of 35.16% beat Whirlpool's return on equity.
Whirlpool has a consensus price target of $113.40, suggesting a potential upside of 19.03%. Given SharkNinja's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Whirlpool is more favorable than SharkNinja.
Whirlpool has higher revenue and earnings than SharkNinja.
In the previous week, SharkNinja had 7 more articles in the media than Whirlpool. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for SharkNinja and 4 mentions for Whirlpool. Whirlpool's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat SharkNinja's score of 0.49 indicating that SharkNinja is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
SharkNinja beats Whirlpool on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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