JILL vs. GCO, TTSH, PBPB, LOCO, NEGG, GENK, NATH, SFIX, BRLT, and QRTEA
Should you be buying J.Jill stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J.Jill include Genesco (GCO), Tile Shop (TTSH), Potbelly (PBPB), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Newegg Commerce (NEGG), GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Stitch Fix (SFIX), Brilliant Earth Group (BRLT), and Qurate Retail (QRTEA). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
J.Jill (NYSE:JILL) and Genesco (NYSE:GCO) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Genesco received 232 more outperform votes than J.Jill when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.54% of users gave J.Jill an outperform vote while only 57.12% of users gave Genesco an outperform vote.
J.Jill has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Genesco. Genesco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J.Jill, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
40.7% of J.Jill shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Genesco shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of J.Jill shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Genesco shares are owned by company 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.
J.Jill has a net margin of 6.00% compared to Genesco's net margin of -0.72%. J.Jill's return on equity of 194.65% beat Genesco's return on equity.
J.Jill has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genesco has a beta of 2.29, meaning that its stock price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, J.Jill had 1 more articles in the media than Genesco. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for J.Jill and 1 mentions for Genesco. Genesco's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat J.Jill's score of 0.39 indicating that Genesco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
J.Jill currently has a consensus price target of $38.00, indicating a potential upside of 36.35%. Genesco has a consensus price target of $31.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.24%. Given J.Jill's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe J.Jill is more favorable than Genesco.
Summary
J.Jill beats Genesco on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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