KIRK vs. BBBY, HOME, W, WSM, RH, HVT, AAN, RENT, NAAS, and YJ
Should you be buying Kirkland's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kirkland's include Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY), At Home Group (HOME), Wayfair (W), Williams-Sonoma (WSM), RH (RH), Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT), Aaron's (AAN), Rent the Runway (RENT), NaaS Technology (NAAS), and Yunji (YJ).
Kirkland's (NASDAQ:KIRK) and Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ:BBBY) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Bed Bath & Beyond received 430 more outperform votes than Kirkland's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.15% of users gave Kirkland's an outperform vote while only 52.06% of users gave Bed Bath & Beyond an outperform vote.
15.4% of Kirkland's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.2% of Bed Bath & Beyond shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Kirkland's shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Bed Bath & Beyond shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kirkland's has a net margin of -5.28% compared to Bed Bath & Beyond's net margin of -20.54%. Bed Bath & Beyond's return on equity of 0.00% beat Kirkland's' return on equity.
Kirkland's has a beta of 2.24, suggesting that its share price is 124% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bed Bath & Beyond has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kirkland's has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bed Bath & Beyond. Kirkland's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bed Bath & Beyond, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kirkland's had 9 more articles in the media than Bed Bath & Beyond. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Kirkland's and 0 mentions for Bed Bath & Beyond. Bed Bath & Beyond's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Kirkland's' score of -0.18 indicating that Bed Bath & Beyond is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kirkland's presently has a consensus price target of $4.88, suggesting a potential upside of 156.58%. Given Kirkland's' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Kirkland's is more favorable than Bed Bath & Beyond.
Summary
Kirkland's beats Bed Bath & Beyond on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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