BNED vs. BGFV, JOANQ, DKS, ASO, ODP, HIBB, SPWH, AENT, SGA, and WW
Should you be buying Barnes & Noble Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barnes & Noble Education include Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV), JOANN (JOANQ), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Academy Sports and Outdoors (ASO), ODP (ODP), Hibbett (HIBB), Sportsman's Warehouse (SPWH), Alliance Entertainment (AENT), Saga Communications (SGA), and WW International (WW).
Barnes & Noble Education (NYSE:BNED) and Big 5 Sporting Goods (NASDAQ:BGFV) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Big 5 Sporting Goods received 115 more outperform votes than Barnes & Noble Education when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.85% of users gave Big 5 Sporting Goods an outperform vote while only 55.58% of users gave Barnes & Noble Education an outperform vote.
Barnes & Noble Education presently has a consensus price target of $2.63, suggesting a potential upside of 316.53%. Big 5 Sporting Goods has a consensus price target of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 188.75%. Given Barnes & Noble Education's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Barnes & Noble Education is more favorable than Big 5 Sporting Goods.
Big 5 Sporting Goods has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Barnes & Noble Education. Big 5 Sporting Goods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barnes & Noble Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Barnes & Noble Education had 5 more articles in the media than Big 5 Sporting Goods. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Barnes & Noble Education and 4 mentions for Big 5 Sporting Goods. Big 5 Sporting Goods' average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Barnes & Noble Education's score of 0.92 indicating that Big 5 Sporting Goods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Barnes & Noble Education has a beta of 2.01, suggesting that its stock price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Big 5 Sporting Goods has a beta of 2.37, suggesting that its stock price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500.
38.5% of Barnes & Noble Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.0% of Big 5 Sporting Goods shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% of Barnes & Noble Education shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of Big 5 Sporting Goods shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Big 5 Sporting Goods has a net margin of -1.82% compared to Barnes & Noble Education's net margin of -5.22%. Big 5 Sporting Goods' return on equity of -6.26% beat Barnes & Noble Education's return on equity.
Summary
Big 5 Sporting Goods beats Barnes & Noble Education on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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