AKA vs. QRTEA, SFIX, DIBS, MYTE, DDL, HEPS, WISH, JMIA, JILL, and GCO
Should you be buying a.k.a. Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of a.k.a. Brands include Qurate Retail (QRTEA), Stitch Fix (SFIX), 1stdibs.Com (DIBS), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), ContextLogic (WISH), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), J.Jill (JILL), and Genesco (GCO). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Qurate Retail (NASDAQ:QRTEA) and a.k.a. Brands (NYSE:AKA) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Qurate Retail presently has a consensus price target of $1.10, indicating a potential upside of 48.31%. a.k.a. Brands has a consensus price target of $14.50, indicating a potential downside of 44.59%. Given a.k.a. Brands' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Qurate Retail is more favorable than a.k.a. Brands.
In the previous week, a.k.a. Brands had 5 more articles in the media than Qurate Retail. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for a.k.a. Brands and 1 mentions for Qurate Retail. Qurate Retail's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat a.k.a. Brands' score of 0.00 indicating that a.k.a. Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Qurate Retail has a net margin of -1.56% compared to Qurate Retail's net margin of -18.11%. a.k.a. Brands' return on equity of 23.19% beat Qurate Retail's return on equity.
64.1% of Qurate Retail shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of a.k.a. Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.2% of Qurate Retail shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of a.k.a. Brands shares are owned by 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.
a.k.a. Brands has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Qurate Retail. a.k.a. Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Qurate Retail, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Qurate Retail received 820 more outperform votes than a.k.a. Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.28% of users gave Qurate Retail an outperform vote while only 31.15% of users gave a.k.a. Brands an outperform vote.
Qurate Retail has a beta of 2.75, suggesting that its stock price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, a.k.a. Brands has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Qurate Retail beats a.k.a. Brands on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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