JILL vs. SFIX, NEGG, NATH, LOCO, DDL, BRLT, ZUMZ, GCO, GENK, and TTSH
Should you be buying J.Jill stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J.Jill include Stitch Fix (SFIX), Newegg Commerce (NEGG), Nathan's Famous (NATH), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), Brilliant Earth Group (BRLT), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Genesco (GCO), GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), and Tile Shop (TTSH). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
J.Jill (NYSE:JILL) and Stitch Fix (NASDAQ:SFIX) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.
Stitch Fix received 442 more outperform votes than J.Jill when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.54% of users gave J.Jill an outperform vote while only 58.58% of users gave Stitch Fix an outperform vote.
J.Jill presently has a consensus price target of $38.00, indicating a potential upside of 46.10%. Stitch Fix has a consensus price target of $3.16, indicating a potential upside of 46.41%. Given Stitch Fix's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Stitch Fix is more favorable than J.Jill.
In the previous week, J.Jill had 6 more articles in the media than Stitch Fix. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for J.Jill and 2 mentions for Stitch Fix. Stitch Fix's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat J.Jill's score of 0.69 indicating that Stitch Fix is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
J.Jill has a net margin of 6.00% compared to Stitch Fix's net margin of -8.29%. J.Jill's return on equity of 194.65% beat Stitch Fix's return on equity.
J.Jill has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stitch Fix has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
40.7% of J.Jill shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of Stitch Fix shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of J.Jill shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.9% of Stitch Fix shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
J.Jill has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Stitch Fix. Stitch Fix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J.Jill, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
J.Jill beats Stitch Fix on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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