BIG vs. FATBB, CATO, RRGB, BIRD, CONN, PLCE, PETS, PSQH, FAT, and CBD
Should you be buying Big Lots stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Big Lots include FAT Brands (FATBB), Cato (CATO), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), Allbirds (BIRD), Conn's (CONN), Children's Place (PLCE), PetMed Express (PETS), PSQ (PSQH), FAT Brands (FAT), and Companhia Brasileira De Distribuicao (CBD). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
FAT Brands (NASDAQ:FATBB) and Big Lots (NYSE:BIG) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
FAT Brands has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Big Lots. FAT Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Big Lots, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
76.0% of Big Lots shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Big Lots shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Big Lots had 3 more articles in the media than FAT Brands. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Big Lots and 3 mentions for FAT Brands. Big Lots' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat FAT Brands' score of 0.33 indicating that FAT Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Big Lots received 671 more outperform votes than FAT Brands when rated by MarketBeat users.
Big Lots has a net margin of -10.20% compared to Big Lots' net margin of -18.75%. Big Lots' return on equity of 0.00% beat FAT Brands' return on equity.
Big Lots has a consensus price target of $5.25, suggesting a potential upside of 47.68%. Given FAT Brands' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Big Lots is more favorable than FAT Brands.
FAT Brands has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Big Lots has a beta of 2.3, indicating that its share price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Big Lots beats FAT Brands on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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