BBW vs. LOVE, NEGG, MYTE, LE, CRMT, VLGEA, GENK, BH, DENN, and DDL
Should you be buying Build-A-Bear Workshop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Build-A-Bear Workshop include Lovesac (LOVE), Newegg Commerce (NEGG), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), Lands' End (LE), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), Village Super Market (VLGEA), GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), Biglari (BH), Denny's (DENN), and Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE:BBW) and Lovesac (NASDAQ:LOVE) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.
Build-A-Bear Workshop has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lovesac. Build-A-Bear Workshop is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lovesac, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Build-A-Bear Workshop currently has a consensus target price of $39.33, suggesting a potential upside of 23.92%. Lovesac has a consensus target price of $35.25, suggesting a potential upside of 25.18%. Given Lovesac's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lovesac is more favorable than Build-A-Bear Workshop.
In the previous week, Lovesac had 3 more articles in the media than Build-A-Bear Workshop. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Lovesac and 9 mentions for Build-A-Bear Workshop. Lovesac's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Build-A-Bear Workshop's score of 0.61 indicating that Lovesac is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Build-A-Bear Workshop received 245 more outperform votes than Lovesac when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.39% of users gave Lovesac an outperform vote while only 62.40% of users gave Build-A-Bear Workshop an outperform vote.
Build-A-Bear Workshop has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lovesac has a beta of 2.78, suggesting that its share price is 178% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Build-A-Bear Workshop has a net margin of 10.86% compared to Lovesac's net margin of 3.39%. Build-A-Bear Workshop's return on equity of 43.26% beat Lovesac's return on equity.
79.3% of Build-A-Bear Workshop shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Lovesac shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.9% of Build-A-Bear Workshop shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of Lovesac shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Lovesac beats Build-A-Bear Workshop on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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