TITN vs. SGU, FLWS, KIRK, YJ, SBH, MRC, BXC, DXPE, WLFC, and ACET
Should you be buying Titan Machinery stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Titan Machinery include Star Group (SGU), 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), Kirkland's (KIRK), Yunji (YJ), Sally Beauty (SBH), MRC Global (MRC), BlueLinx (BXC), DXP Enterprises (DXPE), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), and Adicet Bio (ACET).
Titan Machinery (NASDAQ:TITN) and Star Group (NYSE:SGU) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
In the previous week, Titan Machinery had 2 more articles in the media than Star Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Titan Machinery and 2 mentions for Star Group. Titan Machinery's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Star Group's score of 0.40 indicating that Titan Machinery is being referred to more favorably in the media.
78.4% of Titan Machinery shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.4% of Star Group shares are held by institutional investors. 10.3% of Titan Machinery shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.4% of Star Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Titan Machinery has a net margin of 3.37% compared to Star Group's net margin of 2.15%. Titan Machinery's return on equity of 14.93% beat Star Group's return on equity.
Titan Machinery has higher revenue and earnings than Star Group. Titan Machinery is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Star Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Titan Machinery currently has a consensus target price of $26.25, suggesting a potential upside of 46.73%. Given Titan Machinery's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Titan Machinery is more favorable than Star Group.
Titan Machinery has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Star Group has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Titan Machinery received 145 more outperform votes than Star Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.32% of users gave Star Group an outperform vote while only 55.71% of users gave Titan Machinery an outperform vote.
Summary
Titan Machinery beats Star Group on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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