AMWD vs. LZB, MSGE, BYON, VSCO, TV, JELD, GIII, OXM, GES, and CAL
Should you be buying American Woodmark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Woodmark include La-Z-Boy (LZB), Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE), Beyond (BYON), Victoria's Secret & Co. (VSCO), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), JELD-WEN (JELD), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), Oxford Industries (OXM), Guess? (GES), and Caleres (CAL).
La-Z-Boy (NYSE:LZB) and American Woodmark (NASDAQ:AMWD) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
American Woodmark has a consensus price target of $93.25, suggesting a potential downside of 2.04%. Given La-Z-Boy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe American Woodmark is more favorable than La-Z-Boy.
American Woodmark received 37 more outperform votes than La-Z-Boy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.83% of users gave La-Z-Boy an outperform vote while only 60.07% of users gave American Woodmark an outperform vote.
American Woodmark has a net margin of 6.38% compared to American Woodmark's net margin of 5.73%. La-Z-Boy's return on equity of 16.72% beat American Woodmark's return on equity.
In the previous week, La-Z-Boy had 9 more articles in the media than American Woodmark. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for La-Z-Boy and 0 mentions for American Woodmark. La-Z-Boy's average media sentiment score of 1.78 beat American Woodmark's score of 0.37 indicating that American Woodmark is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
La-Z-Boy has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Woodmark has a beta of 1.73, suggesting that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.
La-Z-Boy has higher revenue and earnings than American Woodmark. American Woodmark is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than La-Z-Boy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
96.3% of La-Z-Boy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.9% of American Woodmark shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of La-Z-Boy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of American Woodmark shares are held by 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.
Summary
American Woodmark beats La-Z-Boy on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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