W vs. NSIT, MNSO, CAVA, DDS, SFM, LAD, AN, BECN, ANF, and GPS
Should you be buying Wayfair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wayfair include Insight Enterprises (NSIT), MINISO Group (MNSO), CAVA Group (CAVA), Dillard's (DDS), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), and GAP (GPS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ:NSIT) and Wayfair (NYSE:W) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Insight Enterprises has a net margin of 3.07% compared to Insight Enterprises' net margin of -6.15%. Wayfair's return on equity of 20.64% beat Insight Enterprises' return on equity.
Insight Enterprises presently has a consensus target price of $198.67, indicating a potential upside of 8.71%. Wayfair has a consensus target price of $76.21, indicating a potential upside of 46.55%. Given Insight Enterprises' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Wayfair is more favorable than Insight Enterprises.
Insight Enterprises has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Wayfair. Wayfair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Insight Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.7% of Wayfair shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Insight Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.5% of Wayfair shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Wayfair received 552 more outperform votes than Insight Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.03% of users gave Wayfair an outperform vote while only 56.67% of users gave Insight Enterprises an outperform vote.
Insight Enterprises has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wayfair has a beta of 3.29, suggesting that its stock price is 229% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Wayfair had 39 more articles in the media than Insight Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for Wayfair and 5 mentions for Insight Enterprises. Wayfair's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Insight Enterprises' score of 0.26 indicating that Insight Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Wayfair beats Insight Enterprises on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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