CULP vs. UFI, CRWS, GMGI, JAKK, VIRC, EVC, KNDI, ESCA, HOFT, and SOWG
Should you be buying Culp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Culp include Unifi (UFI), Crown Crafts (CRWS), Golden Matrix Group (GMGI), JAKKS Pacific (JAKK), Virco Mfg. (VIRC), Entravision Communications (EVC), Kandi Technologies Group (KNDI), Escalade (ESCA), Hooker Furnishings (HOFT), and Sow Good (SOWG).
Unifi (NYSE:UFI) and Culp (NYSE:CULP) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Culp received 29 more outperform votes than Unifi when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.69% of users gave Unifi an outperform vote while only 52.35% of users gave Culp an outperform vote.
Culp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Unifi. Culp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Unifi, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.7% of Unifi shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Culp shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.2% of Unifi shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Culp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Culp has a net margin of -5.75% compared to Culp's net margin of -10.19%. Culp's return on equity of -15.15% beat Unifi's return on equity.
Unifi has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Culp has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Culp had 8 more articles in the media than Unifi. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Culp and 1 mentions for Unifi. Culp's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Unifi's score of 0.39 indicating that Unifi is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Culp beats Unifi on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CULP and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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