KIRK vs. YJ, RENT, GTIM, NXPL, BYU, RMCF, RAVE, TAIT, AHG, and WBUY
Should you be buying Kirkland's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kirkland's include Yunji (YJ), Rent the Runway (RENT), Good Times Restaurants (GTIM), NextPlat (NXPL), BAIYU (BYU), Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (RMCF), Rave Restaurant Group (RAVE), Taitron Components (TAIT), Akso Health Group (AHG), and Webuy Global (WBUY). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Kirkland's (NASDAQ:KIRK) and Yunji (NASDAQ:YJ) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
In the previous week, Kirkland's had 8 more articles in the media than Yunji. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Kirkland's and 2 mentions for Yunji. Yunji's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Kirkland's' score of 0.14 indicating that Yunji is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kirkland's has a beta of 2.2, indicating that its share price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yunji has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kirkland's presently has a consensus price target of $4.88, suggesting a potential upside of 150.00%. Given Kirkland's' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Kirkland's is more favorable than Yunji.
Kirkland's received 387 more outperform votes than Yunji when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.22% of users gave Kirkland's an outperform vote while only 56.76% of users gave Yunji an outperform vote.
Yunji has higher revenue and earnings than Kirkland's. Kirkland's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yunji, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
15.4% of Kirkland's shares are held by institutional investors. 7.5% of Kirkland's shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 45.3% of Yunji shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kirkland's has a net margin of -5.92% compared to Yunji's net margin of -25.69%. Yunji's return on equity of -13.13% beat Kirkland's' return on equity.
Summary
Kirkland's beats Yunji on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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