BSET vs. SCX, PNST, AENT, AOUT, SKLZ, UONE, DLTH, WW, SGA, and GNSS
Should you be buying Bassett Furniture Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bassett Furniture Industries include L.S. Starrett (SCX), Pinstripes (PNST), Alliance Entertainment (AENT), American Outdoor Brands (AOUT), Skillz (SKLZ), Urban One (UONE), Duluth (DLTH), WW International (WW), Saga Communications (SGA), and Genasys (GNSS). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Bassett Furniture Industries (NASDAQ:BSET) and L.S. Starrett (NYSE:SCX) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
L.S. Starrett has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bassett Furniture Industries. Bassett Furniture Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than L.S. Starrett, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bassett Furniture Industries received 105 more outperform votes than L.S. Starrett when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.93% of users gave L.S. Starrett an outperform vote while only 62.91% of users gave Bassett Furniture Industries an outperform vote.
In the previous week, L.S. Starrett had 3 more articles in the media than Bassett Furniture Industries. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for L.S. Starrett and 0 mentions for Bassett Furniture Industries. Bassett Furniture Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat L.S. Starrett's score of 0.39 indicating that Bassett Furniture Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bassett Furniture Industries has a beta of 1.7, meaning that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, L.S. Starrett has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
L.S. Starrett has a net margin of 7.72% compared to Bassett Furniture Industries' net margin of -1.57%. L.S. Starrett's return on equity of 3.45% beat Bassett Furniture Industries' return on equity.
54.4% of Bassett Furniture Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.4% of L.S. Starrett shares are held by institutional investors. 7.1% of Bassett Furniture Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of L.S. Starrett shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
L.S. Starrett beats Bassett Furniture Industries on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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