GRPN vs. CRMT, NGVC, MYTE, QRTEA, VLGEA, LOVE, BBW, ZUMZ, PBPB, and LE
Should you be buying Groupon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Groupon include America's Car-Mart (CRMT), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), Qurate Retail (QRTEA), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Lovesac (LOVE), Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Potbelly (PBPB), and Lands' End (LE). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
America's Car-Mart (NASDAQ:CRMT) and Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and community ranking.
America's Car-Mart presently has a consensus target price of $66.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.36%. Groupon has a consensus target price of $12.38, indicating a potential upside of 7.89%. Given Groupon's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe America's Car-Mart is more favorable than Groupon.
In the previous week, Groupon had 1 more articles in the media than America's Car-Mart. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Groupon and 0 mentions for America's Car-Mart. America's Car-Mart's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Groupon's score of 0.00 indicating that Groupon is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
America's Car-Mart has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Groupon has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
America's Car-Mart has higher revenue and earnings than Groupon. America's Car-Mart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Groupon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
America's Car-Mart has a net margin of -2.10% compared to America's Car-Mart's net margin of -10.76%. America's Car-Mart's return on equity of 0.00% beat Groupon's return on equity.
89.1% of America's Car-Mart shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.1% of Groupon shares are held by institutional investors. 14.1% of America's Car-Mart shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 35.7% of Groupon shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Groupon received 657 more outperform votes than America's Car-Mart when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.79% of users gave Groupon an outperform vote while only 50.20% of users gave America's Car-Mart an outperform vote.
Summary
Groupon beats America's Car-Mart on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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