LOVE vs. HVT, ZUMZ, MYTE, DDL, QRTEA, CRMT, GENK, NGVC, PBPB, and NEGG
Should you be buying Lovesac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lovesac include Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT), Zumiez (ZUMZ), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), Qurate Retail (QRTEA), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Potbelly (PBPB), and Newegg Commerce (NEGG). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Lovesac (NASDAQ:LOVE) and Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Haverty Furniture Companies received 237 more outperform votes than Lovesac when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.39% of users gave Lovesac an outperform vote while only 64.47% of users gave Haverty Furniture Companies an outperform vote.
Lovesac currently has a consensus target price of $35.25, suggesting a potential upside of 37.00%. Haverty Furniture Companies has a consensus target price of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 55.87%. Given Haverty Furniture Companies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Haverty Furniture Companies is more favorable than Lovesac.
Lovesac has a beta of 2.78, meaning that its stock price is 178% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Haverty Furniture Companies has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
91.3% of Lovesac shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.6% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 12.1% of Lovesac shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by company 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.
Haverty Furniture Companies has a net margin of 5.64% compared to Lovesac's net margin of 3.39%. Haverty Furniture Companies' return on equity of 14.94% beat Lovesac's return on equity.
Haverty Furniture Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Lovesac. Haverty Furniture Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lovesac, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Haverty Furniture Companies had 12 more articles in the media than Lovesac. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Haverty Furniture Companies and 3 mentions for Lovesac. Lovesac's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Haverty Furniture Companies' score of -0.01 indicating that Lovesac is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Haverty Furniture Companies beats Lovesac on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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