CODI vs. LEG, LZB, SNBR, FLXS, HOFT, PRPL, NTZ, NVFY, TPX, and BRX
Should you be buying Compass Diversified stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Compass Diversified include Leggett & Platt (LEG), La-Z-Boy (LZB), Sleep Number (SNBR), Flexsteel Industries (FLXS), Hooker Furnishings (HOFT), Purple Innovation (PRPL), Natuzzi (NTZ), Nova LifeStyle (NVFY), Tempur Sealy International (TPX), and Brixmor Property Group (BRX).
Leggett & Platt (NYSE:LEG) and Compass Diversified (NYSE:CODI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Compass Diversified has a net margin of 4.61% compared to Compass Diversified's net margin of -3.44%. Leggett & Platt's return on equity of 11.71% beat Compass Diversified's return on equity.
64.2% of Leggett & Platt shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.7% of Compass Diversified shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Leggett & Platt shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Compass Diversified shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Leggett & Platt has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compass Diversified has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Compass Diversified received 14 more outperform votes than Leggett & Platt when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.33% of users gave Compass Diversified an outperform vote while only 56.72% of users gave Leggett & Platt an outperform vote.
Leggett & Platt currently has a consensus price target of $13.33, indicating a potential upside of 8.93%. Compass Diversified has a consensus price target of $26.50, indicating a potential upside of 19.58%. Given Leggett & Platt's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Compass Diversified is more favorable than Leggett & Platt.
Leggett & Platt pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.0%. Compass Diversified pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Leggett & Platt pays out -158.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Compass Diversified pays out 588.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Compass Diversified has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Leggett & Platt is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Compass Diversified has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Leggett & Platt. Leggett & Platt is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Compass Diversified, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Leggett & Platt had 24 more articles in the media than Compass Diversified. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Leggett & Platt and 1 mentions for Compass Diversified. Leggett & Platt's average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat Compass Diversified's score of 1.42 indicating that Compass Diversified is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Compass Diversified beats Leggett & Platt on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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