Lulu's Fashion Lounge (LVLU) Competitors

Rent the Runway (NASDAQ:RENT) and Lulu's Fashion Lounge (NASDAQ:LVLU) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in RENT or LVLU?

Rent the Runway received 264 more outperform votes than Lulu's Fashion Lounge when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.06% of users gave Rent the Runway an outperform vote while only 36.84% of users gave Lulu's Fashion Lounge an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Rent the Runway	Outperform Votes 285 67.06%	Underperform Votes 140 32.94%
Lulu's Fashion Lounge	Outperform Votes 21 36.84%	Underperform Votes 36 63.16%

Do insiders & institutionals believe in RENT or LVLU?

73.1% of Rent the Runway shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.8% of Lulu's Fashion Lounge shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.6% of Rent the Runway shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.7% of Lulu's Fashion Lounge shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is RENT or LVLU more profitable?

Lulu's Fashion Lounge has a net margin of -8.45% compared to Rent the Runway's net margin of -31.07%. Rent the Runway's return on equity of 0.00% beat Lulu's Fashion Lounge's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Rent the Runway	-31.07%	N/A	-31.91%
Lulu's Fashion Lounge	-8.45%	-47.64%	-17.76%

Do analysts rate RENT or LVLU?

Rent the Runway presently has a consensus price target of $25.86, suggesting a potential upside of 156.01%. Lulu's Fashion Lounge has a consensus price target of $1.50, suggesting a potential downside of 3.23%. Given Rent the Runway's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Rent the Runway is more favorable than Lulu's Fashion Lounge.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Rent the Runway	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.57
Lulu's Fashion Lounge	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Which has higher valuation and earnings, RENT or LVLU?

Lulu's Fashion Lounge has higher revenue and earnings than Rent the Runway. Lulu's Fashion Lounge is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rent the Runway, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Rent the Runway	$298.20M	0.13	-$113.20M	-$30.05	-0.34
Lulu's Fashion Lounge	$327.30M	0.20	-$19.33M	-$0.50	-3.10

Which has more volatility and risk, RENT or LVLU?

Rent the Runway has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lulu's Fashion Lounge has a beta of 0.25, indicating that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer RENT or LVLU?

In the previous week, Rent the Runway had 3 more articles in the media than Lulu's Fashion Lounge. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Rent the Runway and 3 mentions for Lulu's Fashion Lounge. Lulu's Fashion Lounge's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Rent the Runway's score of 0.52 indicating that Lulu's Fashion Lounge is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Rent the Runway	Positive
Lulu's Fashion Lounge	Positive

Summary

Rent the Runway and Lulu's Fashion Lounge tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.