HOUR vs. LVLU, LGCB, AKA, WISH, RENT, FOSL, RAVE, LL, GTIM, and KIRK
Should you be buying Hour Loop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hour Loop include Lulu's Fashion Lounge (LVLU), Linkage Global (LGCB), a.k.a. Brands (AKA), ContextLogic (WISH), Rent the Runway (RENT), Fossil Group (FOSL), Rave Restaurant Group (RAVE), LL Flooring (LL), Good Times Restaurants (GTIM), and Kirkland's (KIRK). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Lulu's Fashion Lounge (NASDAQ:LVLU) and Hour Loop (NASDAQ:HOUR) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
73.8% of Lulu's Fashion Lounge shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.3% of Hour Loop shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of Lulu's Fashion Lounge shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 95.1% of Hour Loop shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lulu's Fashion Lounge received 19 more outperform votes than Hour Loop when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Hour Loop an outperform vote while only 39.62% of users gave Lulu's Fashion Lounge an outperform vote.
Lulu's Fashion Lounge has a beta of 0.11, suggesting that its stock price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hour Loop has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hour Loop has a net margin of -1.84% compared to Hour Loop's net margin of -5.44%. Hour Loop's return on equity of -30.43% beat Lulu's Fashion Lounge's return on equity.
In the previous week, Hour Loop had 11 more articles in the media than Lulu's Fashion Lounge. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Hour Loop and 1 mentions for Lulu's Fashion Lounge. Hour Loop's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Lulu's Fashion Lounge's score of -0.04 indicating that Lulu's Fashion Lounge is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hour Loop has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lulu's Fashion Lounge. Hour Loop is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lulu's Fashion Lounge, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lulu's Fashion Lounge currently has a consensus target price of $2.67, suggesting a potential upside of 131.60%. Given Hour Loop's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lulu's Fashion Lounge is more favorable than Hour Loop.
Summary
Hour Loop beats Lulu's Fashion Lounge on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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