QRTEA vs. SFIX, LITB, OSTK, JMIA, HEPS, DDL, HNST, DIBS, AKA, and BZUN
Should you be buying Qurate Retail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Qurate Retail include Stitch Fix (SFIX), LightInTheBox (LITB), Overstock.com (OSTK), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), Honest (HNST), 1stdibs.Com (DIBS), a.k.a. Brands (AKA), and Baozun (BZUN).
Qurate Retail (NASDAQ:QRTEA) and Stitch Fix (NASDAQ:SFIX) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
Qurate Retail has a net margin of -1.56% compared to Stitch Fix's net margin of -8.68%. Qurate Retail's return on equity of 23.19% beat Stitch Fix's return on equity.
64.1% of Qurate Retail shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of Stitch Fix shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Qurate Retail shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.9% of Stitch Fix shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Stitch Fix had 14 more articles in the media than Qurate Retail. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Stitch Fix and 3 mentions for Qurate Retail. Qurate Retail's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Stitch Fix's score of 0.52 indicating that Qurate Retail is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Qurate Retail has a beta of 2.68, meaning that its stock price is 168% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stitch Fix has a beta of 1.98, meaning that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Qurate Retail received 180 more outperform votes than Stitch Fix when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.23% of users gave Qurate Retail an outperform vote while only 58.42% of users gave Stitch Fix an outperform vote.
Qurate Retail presently has a consensus price target of $1.10, suggesting a potential upside of 48.17%. Stitch Fix has a consensus price target of $3.20, suggesting a potential downside of 15.68%. Given Qurate Retail's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Qurate Retail is more favorable than Stitch Fix.
Qurate Retail has higher revenue and earnings than Stitch Fix. Stitch Fix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Qurate Retail, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Qurate Retail beats Stitch Fix on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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