LESL vs. HNST, DDL, DNUT, ARKO, SGU, BNED, JMIA, ZKH, NXXT, and BYON
Should you be buying Leslie's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leslie's include Honest (HNST), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), Arko (ARKO), Star Group (SGU), Barnes & Noble Education (BNED), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), ZKH Group (ZKH), Nextnrg (NXXT), and Beyond (BYON). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.
Leslie's vs. Its Competitors
Honest (NASDAQ:HNST) and Leslie's (NASDAQ:LESL) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and community ranking.
45.5% of Honest shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.9% of Honest shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Leslie's shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Honest has a net margin of -1.13% compared to Leslie's' net margin of -2.13%. Honest's return on equity of -3.26% beat Leslie's' return on equity.
Leslie's received 15 more outperform votes than Honest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 38.67% of users gave Honest an outperform vote while only 33.85% of users gave Leslie's an outperform vote.
Honest presently has a consensus price target of $7.70, suggesting a potential upside of 60.08%. Leslie's has a consensus price target of $2.27, suggesting a potential upside of 263.55%. Given Leslie's' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Leslie's is more favorable than Honest.
Leslie's has higher revenue and earnings than Honest. Honest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Leslie's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Honest has a beta of 2.39, meaning that its share price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Leslie's has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Leslie's had 15 more articles in the media than Honest. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Leslie's and 2 mentions for Honest. Honest's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Leslie's' score of 0.71 indicating that Honest is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Honest beats Leslie's on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:LESL) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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