LL vs. HD, LOW, JCTCF, BLDR, FND, DXLG, THCH, DTC, TLYS, and PLCE
Should you be buying LL Flooring stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LL Flooring include Home Depot (HD), Lowe's Companies (LOW), Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTCF), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Floor & Decor (FND), Destination XL Group (DXLG), TH International (THCH), Solo Brands (DTC), Tilly's (TLYS), and Children's Place (PLCE).
LL Flooring (NYSE:LL) and Home Depot (NYSE:HD) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Home Depot had 23 more articles in the media than LL Flooring. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Home Depot and 9 mentions for LL Flooring. Home Depot's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat LL Flooring's score of 0.17 indicating that Home Depot is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Home Depot has a net margin of 9.79% compared to LL Flooring's net margin of -14.30%. Home Depot's return on equity of 1,056.67% beat LL Flooring's return on equity.
Home Depot has higher revenue and earnings than LL Flooring. LL Flooring is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home Depot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LL Flooring presently has a consensus target price of $2.00, suggesting a potential upside of 17.65%. Home Depot has a consensus target price of $377.46, suggesting a potential upside of 12.72%. Given LL Flooring's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe LL Flooring is more favorable than Home Depot.
LL Flooring has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Home Depot has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
54.3% of LL Flooring shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Home Depot shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of LL Flooring shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Home Depot shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Home Depot received 1244 more outperform votes than LL Flooring when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.53% of users gave Home Depot an outperform vote while only 54.64% of users gave LL Flooring an outperform vote.
Summary
Home Depot beats LL Flooring on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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