RENT vs. BARK, HITI, NAAS, KIRK, YJ, BQ, SECOY, TKLF, JD, and ULTA
Should you be buying Rent the Runway stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rent the Runway include BARK (BARK), High Tide (HITI), NaaS Technology (NAAS), Kirkland's (KIRK), Yunji (YJ), Boqii (BQ), Secoo (SECOY), Yoshitsu (TKLF), JD.com (JD), and Ulta Beauty (ULTA). These companies are all part of the "retail stores, not elsewhere classified" industry.
BARK (NYSE:BARK) and Rent the Runway (NASDAQ:RENT) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
Rent the Runway received 269 more outperform votes than BARK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.98% of users gave Rent the Runway an outperform vote while only 36.59% of users gave BARK an outperform vote.
BARK has a net margin of -7.55% compared to BARK's net margin of -35.15%. BARK's return on equity of 0.00% beat Rent the Runway's return on equity.
BARK has higher revenue and earnings than Rent the Runway. BARK is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rent the Runway, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BARK has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rent the Runway has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
BARK presently has a consensus price target of $1.63, suggesting a potential upside of 22.81%. Rent the Runway has a consensus price target of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.67%. Given Rent the Runway's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe BARK is more favorable than Rent the Runway.
In the previous week, Rent the Runway had 6 more articles in the media than BARK. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Rent the Runway and 8 mentions for BARK. Rent the Runway's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat BARK's score of 0.69 indicating that BARK is being referred to more favorably in the media.
28.8% of BARK shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.1% of Rent the Runway shares are held by institutional investors. 14.4% of BARK shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Rent the Runway shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
BARK beats Rent the Runway on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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