EYE vs. WRBY, RXST, STAA, BLCO, MORF, ESTA, AKRO, AGTI, RCUS, and ANIP
Should you be buying National Vision stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Vision include Warby Parker (WRBY), RxSight (RXST), STAAR Surgical (STAA), Bausch + Lomb (BLCO), Morphic (MORF), Establishment Labs (ESTA), Akero Therapeutics (AKRO), Agiliti (AGTI), Arcus Biosciences (RCUS), and ANI Pharmaceuticals (ANIP).
Warby Parker (NYSE:WRBY) and National Vision (NASDAQ:EYE) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
93.2% of Warby Parker shares are held by institutional investors. 26.9% of Warby Parker shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of National Vision shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Warby Parker currently has a consensus price target of $16.29, suggesting a potential upside of 35.94%. National Vision has a consensus price target of $23.86, suggesting a potential upside of 34.79%. Given National Vision's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Warby Parker is more favorable than National Vision.
National Vision received 230 more outperform votes than Warby Parker when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.06% of users gave National Vision an outperform vote while only 32.86% of users gave Warby Parker an outperform vote.
Warby Parker has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Vision has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
National Vision has a net margin of -3.10% compared to National Vision's net margin of -9.44%. Warby Parker's return on equity of 3.69% beat National Vision's return on equity.
In the previous week, National Vision had 7 more articles in the media than Warby Parker. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for National Vision and 5 mentions for Warby Parker. National Vision's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Warby Parker's score of 0.29 indicating that Warby Parker is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Warby Parker has higher earnings, but lower revenue than National Vision. Warby Parker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Vision, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Warby Parker beats National Vision on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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