CONN vs. PLCE, PETS, BIG, CATO, RRGB, BIRD, BGFV, LGCB, PSQH, and FARM
Should you be buying Conn's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Conn's include Children's Place (PLCE), PetMed Express (PETS), Big Lots (BIG), Cato (CATO), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), Allbirds (BIRD), Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV), Linkage Global (LGCB), PSQ (PSQH), and Farmer Bros. (FARM). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Children's Place (NASDAQ:PLCE) and Conn's (NASDAQ:CONN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Conn's had 16 more articles in the media than Children's Place. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Conn's and 6 mentions for Children's Place. Conn's' average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Children's Place's score of -0.39 indicating that Children's Place is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Children's Place has a net margin of -4.75% compared to Children's Place's net margin of -6.21%. Children's Place's return on equity of -34.68% beat Conn's' return on equity.
Children's Place received 178 more outperform votes than Conn's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.79% of users gave Conn's an outperform vote while only 62.64% of users gave Children's Place an outperform vote.
Children's Place has higher revenue and earnings than Conn's. Children's Place is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conn's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Children's Place currently has a consensus price target of $17.50, suggesting a potential upside of 124.94%. Conn's has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 108.96%. Given Conn's' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Children's Place is more favorable than Conn's.
55.0% of Conn's shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of Children's Place shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Conn's shares are owned 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.
Children's Place has a beta of 2.05, meaning that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conn's has a beta of 2.35, meaning that its share price is 135% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Conn's beats Children's Place on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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