PETS vs. RAD, NATH, BBW, VLGEA, DXLG, TAST, LE, MYTE, ZUMZ, and LOCO
Should you be buying PetMed Express stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PetMed Express include Rite Aid (RAD), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Destination XL Group (DXLG), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Lands' End (LE), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), Zumiez (ZUMZ), and El Pollo Loco (LOCO). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
PetMed Express vs.
Rite Aid (NYSE:RAD) and PetMed Express (NASDAQ:PETS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Rite Aid received 578 more outperform votes than PetMed Express when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.16% of users gave Rite Aid an outperform vote while only 45.71% of users gave PetMed Express an outperform vote.
Rite Aid has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PetMed Express has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PetMed Express has a net margin of 0.09% compared to Rite Aid's net margin of -3.11%. PetMed Express' return on equity of 4.90% beat Rite Aid's return on equity.
Rite Aid currently has a consensus target price of $2.75, suggesting a potential upside of 45.89%. PetMed Express has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.68%. Given Rite Aid's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Rite Aid is more favorable than PetMed Express.
PetMed Express has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Rite Aid. Rite Aid is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PetMed Express, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
51.8% of Rite Aid shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.7% of PetMed Express shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Rite Aid shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of PetMed Express shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, PetMed Express had 1 more articles in the media than Rite Aid. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for PetMed Express and 4 mentions for Rite Aid. PetMed Express' average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Rite Aid's score of 0.85 indicating that PetMed Express is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
PetMed Express beats Rite Aid on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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