GME vs. HGTY, ACVA, JWN, BOOT, KSS, TGLS, TRIP, RUSHB, GMS, and SG
Should you be buying GameStop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GameStop include Hagerty (HGTY), ACV Auctions (ACVA), Nordstrom (JWN), Boot Barn (BOOT), Kohl's (KSS), Tecnoglass (TGLS), Tripadvisor (TRIP), Rush Enterprises (RUSHB), GMS (GMS), and Sweetgreen (SG). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Hagerty (NYSE:HGTY) and GameStop (NYSE:GME) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Hagerty presently has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.16%. GameStop has a consensus target price of $5.60, indicating a potential downside of 52.94%. Given GameStop's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Hagerty is more favorable than GameStop.
Hagerty has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GameStop has a beta of -0.45, meaning that its stock price is 145% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hagerty has higher earnings, but lower revenue than GameStop. Hagerty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GameStop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GameStop received 1330 more outperform votes than Hagerty when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.89% of users gave GameStop an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Hagerty an outperform vote.
20.5% of Hagerty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.2% of GameStop shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.9% of Hagerty shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.6% of GameStop shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, GameStop had 9 more articles in the media than Hagerty. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for GameStop and 7 mentions for Hagerty. Hagerty's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat GameStop's score of 0.34 indicating that GameStop is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hagerty has a net margin of 1.84% compared to Hagerty's net margin of 0.13%. GameStop's return on equity of 4.53% beat Hagerty's return on equity.
Summary
Hagerty beats GameStop on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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