W vs. CHWY, VIPS, NSIT, CNXN, GCT, RVLV, JMIA, BYON, HEPS, and DDL
Should you be buying Wayfair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wayfair include Chewy (CHWY), Vipshop (VIPS), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), PC Connection (CNXN), GigaCloud Technology (GCT), Revolve Group (RVLV), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), Beyond (BYON), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), and Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL). These companies are all part of the "catalog & mail - order houses" industry.
Chewy (NYSE:CHWY) and Wayfair (NYSE:W) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability and institutional ownership.
Chewy has a net margin of 0.73% compared to Chewy's net margin of -5.28%. Wayfair's return on equity of 16.62% beat Chewy's return on equity.
Chewy has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Wayfair has a beta of 3.39, suggesting that its share price is 239% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chewy currently has a consensus price target of $26.21, indicating a potential upside of 15.23%. Wayfair has a consensus price target of $77.83, indicating a potential upside of 37.92%. Given Chewy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Wayfair is more favorable than Chewy.
Wayfair received 560 more outperform votes than Chewy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.95% of users gave Wayfair an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave Chewy an outperform vote.
93.1% of Chewy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.7% of Wayfair shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Chewy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 26.8% of Wayfair shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Chewy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Wayfair. Wayfair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chewy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Chewy had 4 more articles in the media than Wayfair. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Chewy and 9 mentions for Wayfair. Chewy's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Wayfair's score of 0.50 indicating that Wayfair is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Wayfair beats Chewy on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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