ARKO vs. BBW, BALY, LEGH, KFS, TDUP, TLYS, BNED, SSU, ARKOW, and EVGOW
Should you be buying Arko stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arko include Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), Bally's (BALY), Legacy Housing (LEGH), Kingsway Financial Services (KFS), ThredUp (TDUP), Tilly's (TLYS), Barnes & Noble Education (BNED), SIGNA Sports United (SSU), Arko (ARKOW), and EVgo (EVGOW).
Arko (NASDAQ:ARKO) and Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE:BBW) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
In the previous week, Arko had 3 more articles in the media than Build-A-Bear Workshop. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Arko and 4 mentions for Build-A-Bear Workshop. Build-A-Bear Workshop's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Arko's score of -0.08 indicating that Build-A-Bear Workshop is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Arko currently has a consensus target price of $8.25, suggesting a potential upside of 90.09%. Build-A-Bear Workshop has a consensus target price of $39.33, suggesting a potential upside of 34.43%. Given Arko's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Arko is more favorable than Build-A-Bear Workshop.
Build-A-Bear Workshop received 385 more outperform votes than Arko when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.34% of users gave Build-A-Bear Workshop an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Arko an outperform vote.
Build-A-Bear Workshop has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Arko. Build-A-Bear Workshop is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arko, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
78.3% of Arko shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.3% of Build-A-Bear Workshop shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.2% of Arko shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Build-A-Bear Workshop shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Arko pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Build-A-Bear Workshop pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Arko pays out 48.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Build-A-Bear Workshop pays out 21.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Arko has a beta of 0.28, indicating that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Build-A-Bear Workshop has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Build-A-Bear Workshop has a net margin of 10.86% compared to Arko's net margin of 0.37%. Build-A-Bear Workshop's return on equity of 43.26% beat Arko's return on equity.
Summary
Build-A-Bear Workshop beats Arko on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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