BYU vs. KIRK, GVH, AHG, NXPL, RAVE, RMCF, MGOL, JCTCF, GTIM, and TAIT
Should you be buying BAIYU stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BAIYU include Kirkland's (KIRK), Globavend (GVH), Akso Health Group (AHG), NextPlat (NXPL), Rave Restaurant Group (RAVE), Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (RMCF), MGO Global (MGOL), Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTCF), Good Times Restaurants (GTIM), and Taitron Components (TAIT). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Kirkland's (NASDAQ:KIRK) and BAIYU (NASDAQ:BYU) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends and earnings.
BAIYU has a net margin of 0.33% compared to BAIYU's net margin of -5.92%. Kirkland's' return on equity of 0.12% beat BAIYU's return on equity.
Kirkland's presently has a consensus target price of $4.88, suggesting a potential upside of 144.97%. Given BAIYU's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Kirkland's is more favorable than BAIYU.
Kirkland's received 429 more outperform votes than BAIYU when rated by MarketBeat users.
Kirkland's has a beta of 2.27, meaning that its stock price is 127% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BAIYU has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BAIYU has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kirkland's. BAIYU is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kirkland's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kirkland's had 10 more articles in the media than BAIYU. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Kirkland's and 2 mentions for BAIYU. Kirkland's' average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat BAIYU's score of 0.20 indicating that BAIYU is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
15.4% of Kirkland's shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Kirkland's shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of BAIYU shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Kirkland's beats BAIYU on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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