BBBY vs. FATBB, LL, LVLU, DIT, AKA, YJ, TZOO, FAT, JOAN, and FARM
Should you be buying Bed Bath & Beyond stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bed Bath & Beyond include FAT Brands (FATBB), LL Flooring (LL), Lulu's Fashion Lounge (LVLU), AMCON Distributing (DIT), a.k.a. Brands (AKA), Yunji (YJ), Travelzoo (TZOO), FAT Brands (FAT), JOANN (JOAN), and Farmer Bros. (FARM). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Bed Bath & Beyond vs.
FAT Brands (NASDAQ:FATBB) and Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ:BBBY) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and earnings.
Bed Bath & Beyond has a net margin of -20.54% compared to FAT Brands' net margin of -30.99%.
FAT Brands has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bed Bath & Beyond. FAT Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bed Bath & Beyond, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FAT Brands has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bed Bath & Beyond has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bed Bath & Beyond received 860 more outperform votes than FAT Brands when rated by MarketBeat users.
Bed Bath & Beyond has a consensus price target of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 399.94%. Given Bed Bath & Beyond's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bed Bath & Beyond is more favorable than FAT Brands.
In the previous week, Bed Bath & Beyond had 16 more articles in the media than FAT Brands. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Bed Bath & Beyond and 1 mentions for FAT Brands. FAT Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Bed Bath & Beyond's score of 0.41 indicating that FAT Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FAT Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Bed Bath & Beyond pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 85.0%. FAT Brands pays out -7.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bed Bath & Beyond pays out -4.5% 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.
0.7% of FAT Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.2% of Bed Bath & Beyond shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Bed Bath & Beyond shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Bed Bath & Beyond beats FAT Brands on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BBBY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Bed Bath & Beyond Competitors List
