LEG vs. LZB, FLXS, HOFT, BSET, TPX, MHK, CODI, SNBR, PRPL, and NTZ
Should you be buying Leggett & Platt stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leggett & Platt include La-Z-Boy (LZB), Flexsteel Industries (FLXS), Hooker Furnishings (HOFT), Bassett Furniture Industries (BSET), Tempur Sealy International (TPX), Mohawk Industries (MHK), Compass Diversified (CODI), Sleep Number (SNBR), Purple Innovation (PRPL), and Natuzzi (NTZ).
La-Z-Boy (NYSE:LZB) and Leggett & Platt (NYSE:LEG) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.
Leggett & Platt has a consensus target price of $13.33, indicating a potential upside of 8.93%. Given La-Z-Boy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Leggett & Platt is more favorable than La-Z-Boy.
La-Z-Boy has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Leggett & Platt has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
La-Z-Boy pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Leggett & Platt pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.0%. La-Z-Boy pays out 29.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Leggett & Platt pays out -158.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. La-Z-Boy has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Leggett & Platt is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Leggett & Platt received 5 more outperform votes than La-Z-Boy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.83% of users gave La-Z-Boy an outperform vote while only 56.72% of users gave Leggett & Platt an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Leggett & Platt had 19 more articles in the media than La-Z-Boy. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Leggett & Platt and 4 mentions for La-Z-Boy. La-Z-Boy's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Leggett & Platt's score of 0.59 indicating that Leggett & Platt is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
99.6% of La-Z-Boy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.2% of Leggett & Platt shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of La-Z-Boy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Leggett & Platt shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
La-Z-Boy has a net margin of 5.73% compared to La-Z-Boy's net margin of -3.44%. Leggett & Platt's return on equity of 13.55% beat La-Z-Boy's return on equity.
La-Z-Boy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Leggett & Platt. Leggett & Platt is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than La-Z-Boy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
La-Z-Boy beats Leggett & Platt on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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