BSET vs. SCX, PNST, AENT, AOUT, SKLZ, UONE, DLTH, WW, SGA, and GNSS
Should you be buying Bassett Furniture Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bassett Furniture Industries include L.S. Starrett (SCX), Pinstripes (PNST), Alliance Entertainment (AENT), American Outdoor Brands (AOUT), Skillz (SKLZ), Urban One (UONE), Duluth (DLTH), WW International (WW), Saga Communications (SGA), and Genasys (GNSS). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
L.S. Starrett (NYSE:SCX) and Bassett Furniture Industries (NASDAQ:BSET) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and valuation.
Bassett Furniture Industries received 106 more outperform votes than L.S. Starrett when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.81% of users gave L.S. Starrett an outperform vote while only 62.91% of users gave Bassett Furniture Industries an outperform vote.
43.4% of L.S. Starrett shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Bassett Furniture Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of L.S. Starrett shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Bassett Furniture Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
L.S. Starrett has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bassett Furniture Industries has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bassett Furniture Industries had 1 more articles in the media than L.S. Starrett. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Bassett Furniture Industries and 1 mentions for L.S. Starrett. L.S. Starrett's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Bassett Furniture Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Bassett Furniture Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
L.S. Starrett has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bassett Furniture Industries. Bassett Furniture Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than L.S. Starrett, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
L.S. Starrett has a net margin of 7.72% compared to L.S. Starrett's net margin of -1.57%. Bassett Furniture Industries' return on equity of 3.45% beat L.S. Starrett's return on equity.
Summary
L.S. Starrett beats Bassett Furniture Industries on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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