CRWS vs. CULP, ESCA, IHRT, DOGZ, SOWG, FLXS, EVC, LCUT, FLL, and TSQ
Should you be buying Crown Crafts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown Crafts include Culp (CULP), Escalade (ESCA), iHeartMedia (IHRT), Dogness (International) (DOGZ), Sow Good (SOWG), Flexsteel Industries (FLXS), Entravision Communications (EVC), Lifetime Brands (LCUT), Full House Resorts (FLL), and Townsquare Media (TSQ). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Culp (NYSE:CULP) and Crown Crafts (NASDAQ:CRWS) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.
75.1% of Culp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.2% of Crown Crafts shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.6% of Culp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.9% of Crown Crafts shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Culp received 48 more outperform votes than Crown Crafts when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Crown Crafts an outperform vote while only 51.43% of users gave Culp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Culp had 14 more articles in the media than Crown Crafts. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Culp and 4 mentions for Crown Crafts. Culp's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Crown Crafts' score of 0.50 indicating that Crown Crafts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Crown Crafts has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Culp. Culp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown Crafts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crown Crafts has a net margin of 5.58% compared to Crown Crafts' net margin of -6.13%. Culp's return on equity of 9.77% beat Crown Crafts' return on equity.
Culp has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown Crafts has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Crown Crafts beats Culp on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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