EWCZ vs. AFYA, HTZ, DAO, UDMY, IRS, EVGO, GOTU, SDA, NRDY, and EM
Should you be buying European Wax Center stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of European Wax Center include Afya (AFYA), Hertz Global (HTZ), Youdao (DAO), Udemy (UDMY), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), EVgo (EVGO), Gaotu Techedu (GOTU), SunCar Technology Group (SDA), Nerdy (NRDY), and Smart Share Global (EM). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
European Wax Center vs.
European Wax Center (NASDAQ:EWCZ) and Afya (NASDAQ:AFYA) 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 risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Afya received 26 more outperform votes than European Wax Center when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.66% of users gave Afya an outperform vote while only 53.33% of users gave European Wax Center an outperform vote.
Afya has a net margin of 18.42% compared to European Wax Center's net margin of 4.96%. Afya's return on equity of 19.15% beat European Wax Center's return on equity.
Afya has higher revenue and earnings than European Wax Center. Afya is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than European Wax Center, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
European Wax Center has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Afya has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
European Wax Center presently has a consensus price target of $6.64, indicating a potential downside of 9.62%. Afya has a consensus price target of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.81%. Given Afya's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Afya is more favorable than European Wax Center.
In the previous week, Afya had 2 more articles in the media than European Wax Center. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Afya and 1 mentions for European Wax Center. European Wax Center's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Afya's score of 0.15 indicating that European Wax Center is being referred to more favorably in the media.
82.1% of European Wax Center shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.0% of Afya shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of European Wax Center shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Afya shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Afya beats European Wax Center on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:EWCZ) was last updated on 2/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff