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LESL vs. QVCGB, BZUN, NXXT, CURV, PLBY, BARK, LVRO, DLTH, HOUR, and SPWH

Should you be buying Leslie's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leslie's include QVC Group (QVCGB), Baozun (BZUN), NextNRG (NXXT), Torrid (CURV), PLBY Group (PLBY), BARK (BARK), Lavoro (LVRO), Duluth (DLTH), Hour Loop (HOUR), and Sportsman's Warehouse (SPWH). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.

Leslie's vs. Its Competitors

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

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
Leslie's-6.72% N/A -4.96%
QVC Group N/A N/A N/A

2.3% of QVC Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Leslie's shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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

Leslie's presently has a consensus target price of $1.60, suggesting a potential upside of 459.44%. Given Leslie's' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Leslie's is more favorable than QVC Group.

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

Leslie's has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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
Leslie's$1.33B0.04-$23.38M-$0.45-0.64
QVC Group$9.80B0.02-$3.66B-$453.46-0.06

In the previous week, Leslie's had 31 more articles in the media than QVC Group. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Leslie's and 2 mentions for QVC Group. QVC Group's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Leslie's' score of 0.22 indicating that QVC Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Leslie's
5 Very Positive mention(s)
5 Positive mention(s)
15 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
QVC Group
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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$52.71M$33.35B$16.03B$10.26B
Dividend YieldN/A2.64%3.05%4.63%
P/E Ratio-0.6340.3118.4426.57
Price / Sales0.041.8947.85122.51
Price / Cash2.1816.3814.8360.49
Price / Book-0.308.536.156.34
Net Income-$23.38M$1.23B$679.72M$270.99M
7 Day Performance-14.37%0.25%0.99%2.67%
1 Month Performance-17.84%-0.45%1.50%7.23%
1 Year Performance-90.10%17.38%-0.87%27.97%

Leslie's Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LESL
Leslie's
3.0914 of 5 stars
$0.29
+2.9%
$1.60
+459.4%
-90.2%$52.71M$1.33B-0.633,850Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Stock Split
Gap Up
QVCGB
QVC Group
0.777 of 5 stars
$29.00
flat
N/AN/A$233.97M$9.80B-0.0620,386News Coverage
Positive News
Short Interest ↓
BZUN
Baozun
1.391 of 5 stars
$3.92
+9.5%
$4.20
+7.1%
+80.4%$226.50M$1.29B-8.917,650Positive News
High Trading Volume
NXXT
NextNRG
2.7153 of 5 stars
$1.78
+15.6%
$5.50
+209.0%
N/A$221.08M$27.77M-0.2754Gap Up
High Trading Volume
CURV
Torrid
3.7712 of 5 stars
$1.66
-7.0%
$3.69
+122.7%
-53.8%$173.91M$1.10B41.417,590Analyst Upgrade
High Trading Volume
PLBY
PLBY Group
3.1935 of 5 stars
$1.69
-2.9%
$3.00
+77.5%
+117.8%$160.74M$116.14M-2.171,010Gap Up
High Trading Volume
BARK
BARK
1.5812 of 5 stars
$0.91
+3.4%
$2.63
+189.7%
-52.1%$153.91M$484.18M-5.33640
LVRO
Lavoro
1.6819 of 5 stars
$1.26
-5.3%
$3.44
+172.8%
-55.4%$146.93M$1.89B-0.773,767Positive News
Gap Down
DLTH
Duluth
3.4199 of 5 stars
$3.85
+1.6%
$7.00
+81.8%
+2.2%$144.68M$626.63M-2.692,248Trending News
HOUR
Hour Loop
1.9606 of 5 stars
$5.70
+56.2%
N/A+136.8%$128.38M$138.44M190.06180Short Interest ↓
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
SPWH
Sportsman's Warehouse
3.1172 of 5 stars
$3.17
-6.2%
$3.45
+8.8%
+4.8%$121.82M$1.20B-3.235,100

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This page (NASDAQ:LESL) was last updated on 9/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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