GNSS vs. PET, KUKE, NHTC, PLBY, UONEK, IMAQ, CNTY, CLOE, WFCF, and BODI
Should you be buying Genasys stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genasys include Wag! Group (PET), Kuke Music (KUKE), Natural Health Trends (NHTC), PLBY Group (PLBY), Urban One (UONEK), International Media Acquisition (IMAQ), Century Casinos (CNTY), Clover Leaf Capital (CLOE), Where Food Comes From (WFCF), and Beachbody (BODI). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Genasys (NASDAQ:GNSS) and Wag! Group (NASDAQ:PET) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
Genasys received 8 more outperform votes than Wag! Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 81.82% of users gave Wag! Group an outperform vote while only 44.74% of users gave Genasys an outperform vote.
Genasys currently has a consensus target price of $3.50, indicating a potential upside of 100.00%. Wag! Group has a consensus target price of $5.75, indicating a potential upside of 253.11%. Given Wag! Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Wag! Group is more favorable than Genasys.
Wag! Group has higher revenue and earnings than Genasys. Wag! Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genasys, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wag! Group has a net margin of -15.92% compared to Genasys' net margin of -71.72%. Genasys' return on equity of -46.55% beat Wag! Group's return on equity.
Genasys has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wag! Group has a beta of 2.01, suggesting that its share price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500.
40.0% of Genasys shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.2% of Wag! Group shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of Genasys shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.2% of Wag! Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Wag! Group had 15 more articles in the media than Genasys. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Wag! Group and 4 mentions for Genasys. Genasys' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Wag! Group's score of 0.57 indicating that Genasys is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Wag! Group beats Genasys on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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