PLCE vs. LE, DXLG, FRGI, RRGB, BIG, BARK, BIRD, CURV, GRPN, and TLYS
Should you be buying Children's Place stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Children's Place include Lands' End (LE), Destination XL Group (DXLG), Fiesta Restaurant Group (FRGI), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), Big Lots (BIG), BARK (BARK), Allbirds (BIRD), Torrid (CURV), Groupon (GRPN), and Tilly's (TLYS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Children's Place vs.
Children's Place (NASDAQ:PLCE) and Lands' End (NASDAQ:LE) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
Children's Place has a beta of 1.99, suggesting that its stock price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lands' End has a beta of 2.93, suggesting that its stock price is 193% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lands' End has a net margin of -0.76% compared to Children's Place's net margin of -2.99%. Lands' End's return on equity of -3.07% beat Children's Place's return on equity.
Children's Place presently has a consensus price target of $41.00, suggesting a potential upside of 129.82%. Lands' End has a consensus price target of $11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 38.55%. Given Children's Place's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Children's Place is more favorable than Lands' End.
Children's Place has higher revenue and earnings than Lands' End. Lands' End is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Children's Place, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.7% of Children's Place shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.4% of Lands' End shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of Children's Place shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Lands' End shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Children's Place had 13 more articles in the media than Lands' End. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Children's Place and 13 mentions for Lands' End. Lands' End's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Children's Place's score of 0.14 indicating that Lands' End is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Children's Place received 387 more outperform votes than Lands' End when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.50% of users gave Children's Place an outperform vote while only 56.95% of users gave Lands' End an outperform vote.
Summary
Children's Place beats Lands' End on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PLCE and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
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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