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$0.33 0.00 (-0.30%)
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LESL vs. QVCGB, CURV, NXXT, BZUN, LVRO, PLBY, BARK, AKA, SPWH, and DIBS

Should you be buying Leslie's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leslie's include QVC Group (QVCGB), Torrid (CURV), NextNRG (NXXT), Baozun (BZUN), Lavoro (LVRO), PLBY Group (PLBY), BARK (BARK), a.k.a. Brands (AKA), Sportsman's Warehouse (SPWH), and 1stdibs.com (DIBS). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.

Leslie's vs. Its Competitors

QVC Group (NASDAQ:QVCGB) and Leslie's (NASDAQ:LESL) are both small-cap retail companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and profitability.

In the previous week, Leslie's had 27 more articles in the media than QVC Group. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Leslie's and 1 mentions for QVC Group. QVC Group's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Leslie's' score of 0.39 indicating that QVC Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
QVC Group Positive
Leslie's Neutral

2.3% of QVC Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Leslie's shares are held by company 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.

QVC Group has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Leslie's' net margin of -6.72%.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
QVC GroupN/A N/A N/A
Leslie's -6.72%N/A -4.96%

QVC Group has a beta of -0.02, suggesting that its stock price is 102% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Leslie's has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Leslie's has a consensus price target of $1.60, suggesting a potential upside of 379.04%. Given Leslie's' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Leslie's is more favorable than QVC Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
QVC Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Leslie's
1 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.90

Leslie's has lower revenue, but higher earnings than QVC Group. Leslie's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than QVC Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
QVC Group$9.80B0.02-$3.66B-$453.46-0.06
Leslie's$1.25B0.05-$23.38M-$0.45-0.74

Summary

Leslie's beats QVC Group on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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LESL vs. The Competition

MetricLeslie'sCONS PD IndustryStaples SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$61.99M$32.65B$16.01B$10.14B
Dividend YieldN/A2.60%3.01%4.60%
P/E Ratio-0.7439.5118.2725.98
Price / Sales0.051.7647.00181.13
Price / Cash2.2416.6214.9560.44
Price / Book-0.358.506.136.29
Net Income-$23.38M$1.23B$679.99M$271.07M
7 Day Performance-3.97%0.41%1.10%3.87%
1 Month Performance-4.87%-0.94%0.64%5.49%
1 Year Performance-88.87%16.21%0.18%25.86%

Leslie's Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LESL
Leslie's
3.1165 of 5 stars
$0.33
-0.3%
$1.60
+379.0%
-88.9%$61.99M$1.25B-0.743,850Trending News
QVCGB
QVC Group
0.6159 of 5 stars
$29.00
flat
N/AN/A$233.97M$9.80B-0.0620,386Positive News
Short Interest ↓
CURV
Torrid
3.7911 of 5 stars
$2.19
-0.2%
$4.00
+83.1%
-53.0%$229.47M$1.09B21.857,590Analyst Upgrade
NXXT
NextNRG
2.6715 of 5 stars
$1.82
+4.6%
$6.00
+229.7%
N/A$226.04M$27.77M-0.2754Gap Up
BZUN
Baozun
1.5294 of 5 stars
$3.39
+6.3%
$4.20
+23.9%
+90.8%$195.77M$1.29B-7.707,650Positive News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
LVRO
Lavoro
1.7745 of 5 stars
$1.62
+5.5%
$3.44
+111.7%
-72.6%$189.37M$9.08B-1.003,767Positive News
Gap Up
PLBY
PLBY Group
3.0835 of 5 stars
$1.64
-1.8%
$3.00
+82.9%
+130.0%$155.98M$119.95M-2.101,010
BARK
BARK
1.5933 of 5 stars
$0.91
+1.6%
$2.63
+189.7%
-49.0%$153.91M$470.83M-5.33640Analyst Upgrade
AKA
a.k.a. Brands
3.5875 of 5 stars
$11.30
+1.3%
$20.00
+77.0%
-58.2%$122.54M$598.11M-4.501,350Positive News
Gap Up
SPWH
Sportsman's Warehouse
2.9698 of 5 stars
$2.68
-3.6%
$3.21
+19.7%
+3.8%$102.70M$1.20B-2.795,100
DIBS
1stdibs.com
0.9582 of 5 stars
$2.74
+0.4%
N/A-41.2%$99.33M$88.26M-4.98310News Coverage
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This page (NASDAQ:LESL) was last updated on 9/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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