LL vs. JCTCF, ARKR, THCH, TGL, FOSL, RENT, HOUR, LVLU, FARM, and RAVE
Should you be buying LL Flooring stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LL Flooring include Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTCF), Ark Restaurants (ARKR), TH International (THCH), Treasure Global (TGL), Fossil Group (FOSL), Rent the Runway (RENT), Hour Loop (HOUR), Lulu's Fashion Lounge (LVLU), Farmer Bros. (FARM), and Rave Restaurant Group (RAVE). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Jewett-Cameron Trading (NASDAQ:JCTCF) and LL Flooring (NYSE:LL) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking and risk.
Jewett-Cameron Trading has a net margin of 3.46% compared to Jewett-Cameron Trading's net margin of -11.44%. LL Flooring's return on equity of 7.26% beat Jewett-Cameron Trading's return on equity.
LL Flooring received 419 more outperform votes than Jewett-Cameron Trading when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.93% of users gave Jewett-Cameron Trading an outperform vote while only 54.86% of users gave LL Flooring an outperform vote.
In the previous week, LL Flooring had 12 more articles in the media than Jewett-Cameron Trading. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for LL Flooring and 0 mentions for Jewett-Cameron Trading. Jewett-Cameron Trading's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat LL Flooring's score of 0.00 indicating that LL Flooring is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
LL Flooring has a consensus price target of $3.25, suggesting a potential upside of 95.78%. Given Jewett-Cameron Trading's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LL Flooring is more favorable than Jewett-Cameron Trading.
Jewett-Cameron Trading has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LL Flooring. LL Flooring is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jewett-Cameron Trading, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Jewett-Cameron Trading has a beta of 0.35, indicating that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LL Flooring has a beta of 1.85, indicating that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.
26.0% of Jewett-Cameron Trading shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.3% of LL Flooring shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Jewett-Cameron Trading shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of LL Flooring shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Jewett-Cameron Trading and LL Flooring tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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