CRWS vs. CULP, BZFD, SOND, TOON, BEDU, CNXA, GORV, PMNT, CMLS, and TCS
Should you be buying Crown Crafts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown Crafts include Culp (CULP), BuzzFeed (BZFD), Sonder (SOND), Kartoon Studios (TOON), Bright Scholar Education (BEDU), Connexa Sports Technologies (CNXA), Lazydays (GORV), Perfect Moment (PMNT), Cumulus Media (CMLS), and The Container Store Group (TCS). 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 better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
Culp has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown Crafts has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Culp had 17 more articles in the media than Crown Crafts. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Culp and 1 mentions for Crown Crafts. Culp's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Crown Crafts' score of -0.19 indicating that Crown Crafts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Crown Crafts has a net margin of 5.44% compared to Crown Crafts' net margin of -5.75%. Culp's return on equity of 10.02% beat Crown Crafts' return on equity.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Crown Crafts shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Culp pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. Crown Crafts pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Culp pays out -41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crown Crafts pays out 68.1% 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. Culp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
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 52.82% of users gave Culp an outperform vote.
Summary
Crown Crafts beats Culp on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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