LIVE vs. PLBY, WBUY, NUZE, JFBR, NEWT, FCFS, SVV, WINA, SPH, and LVRO
Should you be buying Live Ventures stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Live Ventures include PLBY Group (PLBY), Webuy Global (WBUY), NuZee (NUZE), Jeffs' Brands (JFBR), NewtekOne (NEWT), FirstCash (FCFS), Savers Value Village (SVV), Winmark (WINA), Suburban Propane Partners (SPH), and Lavoro (LVRO).
Live Ventures (NASDAQ:LIVE) and PLBY Group (NASDAQ:PLBY) are both small-cap multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
Live Ventures has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PLBY Group has a beta of 2.4, meaning that its share price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500.
7.5% of Live Ventures shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.5% of PLBY Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 52.3% of Live Ventures shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.0% of PLBY Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Live Ventures has a net margin of -1.73% compared to PLBY Group's net margin of -124.32%. Live Ventures' return on equity of -6.77% beat PLBY Group's return on equity.
Live Ventures received 174 more outperform votes than PLBY Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.31% of users gave PLBY Group an outperform vote while only 65.72% of users gave Live Ventures an outperform vote.
Live Ventures has higher revenue and earnings than PLBY Group. Live Ventures is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PLBY Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Live Ventures had 9 more articles in the media than PLBY Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Live Ventures and 3 mentions for PLBY Group. PLBY Group's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Live Ventures' score of 0.34 indicating that PLBY Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PLBY Group has a consensus target price of $2.75, indicating a potential upside of 219.21%. Given PLBY Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PLBY Group is more favorable than Live Ventures.
Summary
PLBY Group beats Live Ventures on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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