LCUT vs. ACU, SCX, BSET, GNSS, SGC, SGA, RCKY, HNST, BRAG, and BODY
Should you be buying Lifetime Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lifetime Brands include Acme United (ACU), L.S. Starrett (SCX), Bassett Furniture Industries (BSET), Genasys (GNSS), Superior Group of Companies (SGC), Saga Communications (SGA), Rocky Brands (RCKY), Honest (HNST), Bragg Gaming Group (BRAG), and Beachbody (BODY). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Lifetime Brands vs.
Acme United (NYSE:ACU) and Lifetime Brands (NASDAQ:LCUT) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
Lifetime Brands received 217 more outperform votes than Acme United when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Acme United an outperform vote while only 64.60% of users gave Lifetime Brands an outperform vote.
Acme United pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Lifetime Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Acme United pays out 51.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lifetime Brands pays out -19.5% 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. Acme United has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Lifetime Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Acme United has a net margin of 2.02% compared to Acme United's net margin of -2.69%. Lifetime Brands' return on equity of 4.85% beat Acme United's return on equity.
Acme United has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lifetime Brands. Lifetime Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acme United, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Acme United has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lifetime Brands has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lifetime Brands has a consensus price target of $10.75, indicating a potential upside of 96.17%. Given Acme United's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lifetime Brands is more favorable than Acme United.
61.7% of Acme United shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.4% of Lifetime Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.1% of Acme United shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 43.3% of Lifetime Brands shares are owned by 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.
In the previous week, Acme United and Acme United both had 2 articles in the media. Acme United's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Lifetime Brands' score of 0.46 indicating that Lifetime Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Acme United beats Lifetime Brands on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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