LOVE vs. HVT, RH, ARHS, CNXN, BLMN, QRTEB, PLAY, ODP, IMKTA, and WINA
Should you be buying Lovesac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lovesac include Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT), RH (RH), Arhaus (ARHS), PC Connection (CNXN), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Qurate Retail (QRTEB), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), ODP (ODP), Ingles Markets (IMKTA), and Winmark (WINA).
Lovesac (NASDAQ:LOVE) and Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
Lovesac has a beta of 2.94, meaning that its share price is 194% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Haverty Furniture Companies has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Haverty Furniture Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Lovesac. Haverty Furniture Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lovesac, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Haverty Furniture Companies received 232 more outperform votes than Lovesac when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.09% of users gave Lovesac an outperform vote while only 64.26% of users gave Haverty Furniture Companies an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Lovesac had 4 more articles in the media than Haverty Furniture Companies. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Lovesac and 2 mentions for Haverty Furniture Companies. Lovesac's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Haverty Furniture Companies' score of -1.00 indicating that Lovesac is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lovesac presently has a consensus target price of $34.20, indicating a potential upside of 23.38%. Haverty Furniture Companies has a consensus target price of $45.00, indicating a potential upside of 61.81%. Given Haverty Furniture Companies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Haverty Furniture Companies is more favorable than Lovesac.
Haverty Furniture Companies has a net margin of 5.64% compared to Lovesac's net margin of 2.17%. Haverty Furniture Companies' return on equity of 14.98% beat Lovesac's return on equity.
91.3% of Lovesac shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.6% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.3% of Lovesac shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Lovesac beats Haverty Furniture Companies on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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