PETS vs. PRTS, RAD, CVET, WBA, CVS, AMZN, NFLX, BKNG, EXPE, and TRIP
Should you be buying PetMed Express stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PetMed Express include CarParts.com (PRTS), Rite Aid (RAD), Covetrus (CVET), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), CVS Health (CVS), Amazon.com (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX), Booking (BKNG), Expedia Group (EXPE), and Tripadvisor (TRIP).
PetMed Express (NASDAQ:PETS) and CarParts.com (NASDAQ:PRTS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment and risk.
PetMed Express has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CarParts.com. PetMed Express is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CarParts.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CarParts.com has a net margin of -2.36% compared to PetMed Express' net margin of -2.85%. PetMed Express' return on equity of -7.09% beat CarParts.com's return on equity.
PetMed Express presently has a consensus target price of $5.25, suggesting a potential upside of 30.60%. CarParts.com has a consensus target price of $3.33, suggesting a potential upside of 166.67%. Given CarParts.com's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CarParts.com is more favorable than PetMed Express.
PetMed Express has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CarParts.com has a beta of 2.01, indicating that its share price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500.
73.3% of PetMed Express shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of CarParts.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of PetMed Express shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of CarParts.com shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, PetMed Express had 7 more articles in the media than CarParts.com. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for PetMed Express and 7 mentions for CarParts.com. CarParts.com's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat PetMed Express' score of 0.72 indicating that CarParts.com is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CarParts.com received 55 more outperform votes than PetMed Express when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.51% of users gave CarParts.com an outperform vote while only 45.15% of users gave PetMed Express an outperform vote.
Summary
CarParts.com beats PetMed Express on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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