ACVA vs. LZ, KAR, SSTK, FVRR, HGTY, KSS, BOOT, SG, JWN, and PSMT
Should you be buying ACV Auctions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ACV Auctions include LegalZoom.com (LZ), OPENLANE (KAR), Shutterstock (SSTK), Fiverr International (FVRR), Hagerty (HGTY), Kohl's (KSS), Boot Barn (BOOT), Sweetgreen (SG), Nordstrom (JWN), and PriceSmart (PSMT).
ACV Auctions (NASDAQ:ACVA) and LegalZoom.com (NASDAQ:LZ) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
ACV Auctions currently has a consensus target price of $20.36, indicating a potential upside of 17.74%. LegalZoom.com has a consensus target price of $14.75, indicating a potential upside of 47.80%. Given LegalZoom.com's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe LegalZoom.com is more favorable than ACV Auctions.
ACV Auctions has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LegalZoom.com has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
LegalZoom.com has higher revenue and earnings than ACV Auctions. ACV Auctions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LegalZoom.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ACV Auctions received 24 more outperform votes than LegalZoom.com when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 49.49% of users gave ACV Auctions an outperform vote while only 35.21% of users gave LegalZoom.com an outperform vote.
LegalZoom.com has a net margin of 3.15% compared to ACV Auctions' net margin of -15.28%. LegalZoom.com's return on equity of 19.47% beat ACV Auctions' return on equity.
88.6% of ACV Auctions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.0% of LegalZoom.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.5% of ACV Auctions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of LegalZoom.com shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, ACV Auctions had 5 more articles in the media than LegalZoom.com. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for ACV Auctions and 29 mentions for LegalZoom.com. ACV Auctions' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat LegalZoom.com's score of 0.04 indicating that ACV Auctions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
ACV Auctions and LegalZoom.com tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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