WOOF vs. TITN, FLWS, NEGG, BARK, SBH, DBI, HVT, CHUY, TAST, and BIGC
Should you be buying Petco Health and Wellness stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Petco Health and Wellness include Titan Machinery (TITN), 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), Newegg Commerce (NEGG), BARK (BARK), Sally Beauty (SBH), Designer Brands (DBI), Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT), Chuy's (CHUY), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), and BigCommerce (BIGC). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Petco Health and Wellness (NASDAQ:WOOF) and Titan Machinery (NASDAQ:TITN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
78.4% of Titan Machinery shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Petco Health and Wellness shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of Titan Machinery shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Petco Health and Wellness currently has a consensus price target of $3.65, indicating a potential upside of 121.26%. Titan Machinery has a consensus price target of $45.33, indicating a potential upside of 98.31%. Given Petco Health and Wellness' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Petco Health and Wellness is more favorable than Titan Machinery.
Titan Machinery has a net margin of 4.08% compared to Petco Health and Wellness' net margin of -20.47%. Titan Machinery's return on equity of 18.40% beat Petco Health and Wellness' return on equity.
In the previous week, Petco Health and Wellness had 4 more articles in the media than Titan Machinery. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Petco Health and Wellness and 4 mentions for Titan Machinery. Titan Machinery's average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat Petco Health and Wellness' score of 0.82 indicating that Titan Machinery is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Petco Health and Wellness has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Titan Machinery has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Petco Health and Wellness received 65 more outperform votes than Titan Machinery when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.65% of users gave Petco Health and Wellness an outperform vote while only 55.97% of users gave Titan Machinery an outperform vote.
Titan Machinery has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Petco Health and Wellness. Petco Health and Wellness is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Titan Machinery, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Titan Machinery beats Petco Health and Wellness on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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