RENT vs. LESL, DXLG, YI, HOUR, VGII, LIVE, HTLM, ABLV, GROV, and GIFT
Should you be buying Rent the Runway stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rent the Runway include Leslie's (LESL), Destination XL Group (DXLG), 111 (YI), Hour Loop (HOUR), Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II (VGII), Live Ventures (LIVE), HomesToLife (HTLM), Able View Global (ABLV), Grove Collaborative (GROV), and Giftify (GIFT). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.
Rent the Runway vs. Its Competitors
Rent the Runway (NASDAQ:RENT) and Leslie's (NASDAQ:LESL) are both small-cap retail companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Rent the Runway currently has a consensus price target of $33.00, indicating a potential upside of 537.68%. Leslie's has a consensus price target of $2.07, indicating a potential upside of 383.64%. Given Rent the Runway's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Rent the Runway is more favorable than Leslie's.
73.1% of Rent the Runway shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.5% of Rent the Runway shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Leslie's 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, Leslie's had 17 more articles in the media than Rent the Runway. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Leslie's and 0 mentions for Rent the Runway. Leslie's' average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Rent the Runway's score of 0.00 indicating that Leslie's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Leslie's has a net margin of -3.42% compared to Rent the Runway's net margin of -24.60%.
Rent the Runway has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Leslie's has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Leslie's has higher revenue and earnings than Rent the Runway. Leslie's 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.
Summary
Rent the Runway beats Leslie's on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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This page (NASDAQ:RENT) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
