GRPN vs. CRMT, NGVC, MYTE, QRTEA, VLGEA, LOVE, BBW, ZUMZ, PBPB, and LE
Should you be buying Groupon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Groupon include America's Car-Mart (CRMT), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), Qurate Retail (QRTEA), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Lovesac (LOVE), Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Potbelly (PBPB), and Lands' End (LE). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN) and America's Car-Mart (NASDAQ:CRMT) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
90.1% of Groupon shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of America's Car-Mart shares are owned by institutional investors. 35.7% of Groupon shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.1% of America's Car-Mart shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Groupon had 1 more articles in the media than America's Car-Mart. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Groupon and 1 mentions for America's Car-Mart. America's Car-Mart's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Groupon's score of 0.51 indicating that America's Car-Mart is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
America's Car-Mart has higher revenue and earnings than Groupon. America's Car-Mart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Groupon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
America's Car-Mart has a net margin of -2.10% compared to Groupon's net margin of -10.76%. Groupon's return on equity of 0.00% beat America's Car-Mart's return on equity.
Groupon presently has a consensus target price of $12.38, indicating a potential upside of 6.04%. America's Car-Mart has a consensus target price of $66.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.05%. Given America's Car-Mart's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe America's Car-Mart is more favorable than Groupon.
Groupon has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, America's Car-Mart has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Groupon received 657 more outperform votes than America's Car-Mart when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.79% of users gave Groupon an outperform vote while only 50.20% of users gave America's Car-Mart an outperform vote.
Summary
Groupon beats America's Car-Mart on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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