DTC vs. TLYS, DXLG, AKA, CTRN, STKS, BARK, VRA, WISH, DIBS, and WILC
Should you be buying Solo Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Solo Brands include Tilly's (TLYS), Destination XL Group (DXLG), a.k.a. Brands (AKA), Citi Trends (CTRN), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), BARK (BARK), Vera Bradley (VRA), ContextLogic (WISH), 1stdibs.Com (DIBS), and G. Willi-Food International (WILC). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Tilly's (NYSE:TLYS) and Solo Brands (NYSE:DTC) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, community ranking and risk.
76.4% of Tilly's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.5% of Solo Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 27.1% of Tilly's shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Solo Brands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Tilly's has higher revenue and earnings than Solo Brands. Tilly's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Solo Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tilly's currently has a consensus target price of $7.88, indicating a potential upside of 26.81%. Solo Brands has a consensus target price of $3.54, indicating a potential upside of 77.08%. Given Tilly's' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Solo Brands is more favorable than Tilly's.
Tilly's has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Solo Brands has a beta of 2.59, suggesting that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Solo Brands had 12 more articles in the media than Tilly's. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Solo Brands and 3 mentions for Tilly's. Solo Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Tilly's' score of 0.57 indicating that Tilly's is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tilly's received 448 more outperform votes than Solo Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.56% of users gave Tilly's an outperform vote while only 43.90% of users gave Solo Brands an outperform vote.
Tilly's has a net margin of -5.54% compared to Tilly's' net margin of -23.52%. Tilly's' return on equity of 6.99% beat Solo Brands' return on equity.
Summary
Solo Brands beats Tilly's on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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