CRWS vs. CULP, SSP, JAKK, GMGI, VIRC, EVC, ESCA, KNDI, HOFT, and FLXS
Should you be buying Crown Crafts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown Crafts include Culp (CULP), E.W. Scripps (SSP), JAKKS Pacific (JAKK), Golden Matrix Group (GMGI), Virco Mfg. (VIRC), Entravision Communications (EVC), Escalade (ESCA), Kandi Technologies Group (KNDI), Hooker Furnishings (HOFT), and Flexsteel Industries (FLXS). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Crown Crafts (NASDAQ:CRWS) and Culp (NYSE:CULP) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk and media sentiment.
Culp received 48 more outperform votes than Crown Crafts when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Crown Crafts an outperform vote while only 52.35% of users gave Culp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Culp had 4 more articles in the media than Crown Crafts. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Culp and 5 mentions for Crown Crafts. Crown Crafts' average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Culp's score of 0.29 indicating that Crown Crafts is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Crown Crafts has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Culp has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
30.2% of Crown Crafts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Culp shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of Crown Crafts shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Culp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Crown Crafts has a net margin of 5.44% compared to Culp's net margin of -5.75%. Crown Crafts' return on equity of 10.02% beat Culp's return on equity.
Crown Crafts has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Culp. Culp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown Crafts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Crown Crafts beats Culp on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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