PLBY vs. LEE, LIVE, BMTX, WBUY, NUZE, JFBR, LEAF, DJCO, TPCO, and FCFS
Should you be buying PLBY Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PLBY Group include Lee Enterprises (LEE), Live Ventures (LIVE), BM Technologies (BMTX), Webuy Global (WBUY), NuZee (NUZE), Jeffs' Brands (JFBR), Leaf Group (LEAF), Daily Journal (DJCO), Tribune Publishing (TPCO), and FirstCash (FCFS).
PLBY Group (NASDAQ:PLBY) and Lee Enterprises (NYSE:LEE) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
PLBY Group has a beta of 2.4, suggesting that its stock price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lee Enterprises has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PLBY Group presently has a consensus price target of $2.75, indicating a potential upside of 219.21%. Given PLBY Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe PLBY Group is more favorable than Lee Enterprises.
32.5% of PLBY Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.2% of Lee Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.0% of PLBY Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Lee Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Lee Enterprises had 5 more articles in the media than PLBY Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Lee Enterprises and 3 mentions for PLBY Group. PLBY Group's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Lee Enterprises' score of 0.16 indicating that PLBY Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lee Enterprises has a net margin of -1.88% compared to PLBY Group's net margin of -124.32%. Lee Enterprises' return on equity of -67.53% beat PLBY Group's return on equity.
Lee Enterprises received 172 more outperform votes than PLBY Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.31% of users gave PLBY Group an outperform vote while only 62.54% of users gave Lee Enterprises an outperform vote.
Lee Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than PLBY Group. Lee Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PLBY Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lee Enterprises beats PLBY Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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