GPRO vs. KODK, IMAX, DOYU, WEYS, COOK, SGC, WOW, JAKK, CLAR, and HNST
Should you be buying GoPro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GoPro include Eastman Kodak (KODK), IMAX (IMAX), DouYu International (DOYU), Weyco Group (WEYS), Traeger (COOK), Superior Group of Companies (SGC), WideOpenWest (WOW), JAKKS Pacific (JAKK), Clarus (CLAR), and Honest (HNST).
GoPro (NASDAQ:GPRO) and Eastman Kodak (NYSE:KODK) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Eastman Kodak has higher revenue and earnings than GoPro. GoPro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastman Kodak, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eastman Kodak has a net margin of 6.71% compared to GoPro's net margin of -5.29%. Eastman Kodak's return on equity of 10.40% beat GoPro's return on equity.
GoPro has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastman Kodak has a beta of 3.47, suggesting that its stock price is 247% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, GoPro had 4 more articles in the media than Eastman Kodak. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for GoPro and 1 mentions for Eastman Kodak. Eastman Kodak's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat GoPro's score of 0.55 indicating that Eastman Kodak is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GoPro currently has a consensus price target of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 44.51%. Given GoPro's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe GoPro is more favorable than Eastman Kodak.
GoPro received 977 more outperform votes than Eastman Kodak when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.19% of users gave GoPro an outperform vote while only 54.24% of users gave Eastman Kodak an outperform vote.
70.1% of GoPro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.7% of Eastman Kodak shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.4% of GoPro shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.9% of Eastman Kodak shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Eastman Kodak beats GoPro on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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