LIVE vs. AKA, DIBS, LESL, YI, DXLG, HTLM, VGII, ABLV, HOUR, and GIFT
Should you be buying Live Ventures stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Live Ventures include a.k.a. Brands (AKA), 1stdibs.com (DIBS), Leslie's (LESL), 111 (YI), Destination XL Group (DXLG), HomesToLife (HTLM), Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II (VGII), Able View Global (ABLV), Hour Loop (HOUR), and Giftify (GIFT). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.
Live Ventures vs. Its Competitors
Live Ventures (NASDAQ:LIVE) and a.k.a. Brands (NYSE:AKA) are both small-cap retail companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
a.k.a. Brands has a consensus price target of $19.25, indicating a potential upside of 72.96%. Given a.k.a. Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe a.k.a. Brands is more favorable than Live Ventures.
7.5% of Live Ventures shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of a.k.a. Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 53.3% of Live Ventures shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of a.k.a. Brands shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
a.k.a. Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Live Ventures. Live Ventures is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than a.k.a. Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Live Ventures has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, a.k.a. Brands has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Live Ventures had 3 more articles in the media than a.k.a. Brands. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Live Ventures and 3 mentions for a.k.a. Brands. Live Ventures' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat a.k.a. Brands' score of 0.30 indicating that Live Ventures is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Live Ventures has a net margin of -1.40% compared to a.k.a. Brands' net margin of -4.33%. Live Ventures' return on equity of 11.21% beat a.k.a. Brands' return on equity.
Summary
a.k.a. Brands beats Live Ventures on 9 of the 16 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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This page (NASDAQ:LIVE) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
