HVT vs. LOVE, ARHS, TITN, CURV, CHUY, TAST, DBI, WOOF, MOV, and JMIA
Should you be buying Haverty Furniture Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Haverty Furniture Companies include Lovesac (LOVE), Arhaus (ARHS), Titan Machinery (TITN), Torrid (CURV), Chuy's (CHUY), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Designer Brands (DBI), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), Movado Group (MOV), and Jumia Technologies (JMIA). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Lovesac (NASDAQ:LOVE) and Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Haverty Furniture Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Lovesac. Haverty Furniture Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lovesac, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lovesac had 2 more articles in the media than Haverty Furniture Companies. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Lovesac and 5 mentions for Haverty Furniture Companies. Haverty Furniture Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Lovesac's score of -0.35 indicating that Lovesac is being referred to more favorably in the media.
91.3% of Lovesac shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.6% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.1% of Lovesac shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Lovesac has a beta of 2.87, meaning that its stock price is 187% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Haverty Furniture Companies has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Haverty Furniture Companies received 237 more outperform votes than Lovesac when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.25% of users gave Lovesac an outperform vote while only 64.42% of users gave Haverty Furniture Companies an outperform vote.
Lovesac presently has a consensus price target of $35.33, indicating a potential upside of 59.37%. Haverty Furniture Companies has a consensus price target of $41.00, indicating a potential upside of 33.16%. Given Haverty Furniture Companies' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lovesac is more favorable than Haverty Furniture Companies.
Haverty Furniture Companies has a net margin of 6.53% compared to Haverty Furniture Companies' net margin of 3.39%. Lovesac's return on equity of 18.36% beat Haverty Furniture Companies' return on equity.
Summary
Lovesac beats Haverty Furniture Companies on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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