LEG vs. LZB, MSGE, OSW, PRDO, VSCO, AMWD, OXM, CWH, AMC, and HBI
Should you be buying Leggett & Platt stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leggett & Platt include La-Z-Boy (LZB), Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE), OneSpaWorld (OSW), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Victoria's Secret & Co. (VSCO), American Woodmark (AMWD), Oxford Industries (OXM), Camping World (CWH), AMC Entertainment (AMC), and Hanesbrands (HBI). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Leggett & Platt (NYSE:LEG) and La-Z-Boy (NYSE:LZB) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment and risk.
La-Z-Boy has a net margin of 5.73% compared to Leggett & Platt's net margin of -3.44%. La-Z-Boy's return on equity of 13.55% beat Leggett & Platt's return on equity.
Leggett & Platt presently has a consensus target price of $13.33, suggesting a potential upside of 25.31%. Given Leggett & Platt's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Leggett & Platt is more favorable than La-Z-Boy.
Leggett & Platt pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.3%. La-Z-Boy pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Leggett & Platt pays out -158.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. La-Z-Boy pays out 29.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Leggett & Platt is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
64.2% of Leggett & Platt shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.6% of La-Z-Boy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Leggett & Platt shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of La-Z-Boy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Leggett & Platt has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, La-Z-Boy has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Leggett & Platt had 12 more articles in the media than La-Z-Boy. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Leggett & Platt and 4 mentions for La-Z-Boy. Leggett & Platt's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat La-Z-Boy's score of 0.39 indicating that Leggett & Platt is being referred to more favorably in the media.
La-Z-Boy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Leggett & Platt. Leggett & Platt is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than La-Z-Boy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Leggett & Platt received 5 more outperform votes than La-Z-Boy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.83% of users gave La-Z-Boy an outperform vote while only 56.72% of users gave Leggett & Platt an outperform vote.
Summary
La-Z-Boy beats Leggett & Platt on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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