LESL vs. NXXT, BWMX, TDUP, SFIX, LVRO, BNED, LOVE, HVT.A, LE, and JMIA
Should you be buying Leslie's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leslie's include Nextnrg (NXXT), Betterware de México, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (BWMX), ThredUp (TDUP), Stitch Fix (SFIX), Lavoro (LVRO), Barnes & Noble Education (BNED), Lovesac (LOVE), Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT.A), Lands' End (LE), and Jumia Technologies (JMIA). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.
Leslie's vs.
Nextnrg (NASDAQ:NXXT) and Leslie's (NASDAQ:LESL) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
10.6% of Nextnrg shares are held by institutional investors. 81.7% of Nextnrg shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Leslie's shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Leslie's has a consensus target price of $2.65, indicating a potential upside of 340.69%. Given Leslie's' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Leslie's is more favorable than Nextnrg.
Nextnrg has a beta of -0.57, indicating that its stock price is 157% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Leslie's has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Leslie's had 6 more articles in the media than Nextnrg. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Leslie's and 10 mentions for Nextnrg. Leslie's' average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat Nextnrg's score of 0.11 indicating that Leslie's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nextnrg has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Leslie's. Leslie's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nextnrg, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Leslie's has a net margin of -2.13% compared to Nextnrg's net margin of -62.85%. Nextnrg's return on equity of 0.00% beat Leslie's' return on equity.
Leslie's received 44 more outperform votes than Nextnrg when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Leslie's beats Nextnrg on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LESL) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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