HBI vs. BOWL, TV, MSGE, OXM, ATGE, MLKN, AFYA, CWH, SPHR, and FUN
Should you be buying Hanesbrands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hanesbrands include Bowlero (BOWL), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE), Oxford Industries (OXM), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), MillerKnoll (MLKN), Afya (AFYA), Camping World (CWH), Sphere Entertainment (SPHR), and Cedar Fair (FUN). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Bowlero (NYSE:BOWL) and Hanesbrands (NYSE:HBI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Bowlero has a net margin of 6.33% compared to Bowlero's net margin of -0.31%. Hanesbrands' return on equity of 98.75% beat Bowlero's return on equity.
Hanesbrands received 744 more outperform votes than Bowlero when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.97% of users gave Bowlero an outperform vote while only 70.79% of users gave Hanesbrands an outperform vote.
Bowlero has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hanesbrands has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
68.1% of Bowlero shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.3% of Hanesbrands shares are held by institutional investors. 56.5% of Bowlero shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Hanesbrands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Bowlero presently has a consensus target price of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 52.28%. Hanesbrands has a consensus target price of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.62%. Given Hanesbrands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bowlero is more favorable than Hanesbrands.
Bowlero has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hanesbrands. Hanesbrands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bowlero, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bowlero pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Hanesbrands pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.3%. Bowlero pays out 122.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hanesbrands pays out -1,200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hanesbrands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Bowlero had 3 more articles in the media than Hanesbrands. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Bowlero and 5 mentions for Hanesbrands. Bowlero's average media sentiment score of 0.02 beat Hanesbrands' score of -0.04 indicating that Hanesbrands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Bowlero beats Hanesbrands on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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