SBH vs. FLWS, TITN, WOOF, NEGG, JACK, CARS, GOOS, KRUS, WINA, and HIBB
Should you be buying Sally Beauty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sally Beauty include 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), Titan Machinery (TITN), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), Newegg Commerce (NEGG), Jack in the Box (JACK), Cars.com (CARS), Canada Goose (GOOS), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Winmark (WINA), and Hibbett (HIBB). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Sally Beauty (NYSE:SBH) and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (NASDAQ:FLWS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
38.4% of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Sally Beauty shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 49.8% of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sally Beauty has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sally Beauty has higher revenue and earnings than 1-800-FLOWERS.COM. 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sally Beauty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sally Beauty has a net margin of 4.66% compared to 1-800-FLOWERS.COM's net margin of -3.24%. Sally Beauty's return on equity of 37.78% beat 1-800-FLOWERS.COM's return on equity.
1-800-FLOWERS.COM received 55 more outperform votes than Sally Beauty when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.99% of users gave 1-800-FLOWERS.COM an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Sally Beauty an outperform vote.
In the previous week, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM had 8 more articles in the media than Sally Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM and 3 mentions for Sally Beauty. Sally Beauty's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat 1-800-FLOWERS.COM's score of 0.62 indicating that Sally Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sally Beauty presently has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.59%. 1-800-FLOWERS.COM has a consensus target price of $7.50, suggesting a potential downside of 17.76%. Given Sally Beauty's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Sally Beauty is more favorable than 1-800-FLOWERS.COM.
Summary
Sally Beauty beats 1-800-FLOWERS.COM on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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