Xcel Brands (XELB) Competitors

InnSuites Hospitality Trust (NYSE:IHT) and Xcel Brands (NASDAQ:XELB) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking and risk.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer IHT or XELB?

Xcel Brands received 234 more outperform votes than InnSuites Hospitality Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 45.26% of users gave Xcel Brands an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave InnSuites Hospitality Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
InnSuites Hospitality Trust	Outperform Votes No Votes	Underperform Votes 95 100.00%
Xcel Brands	Outperform Votes 234 45.26%	Underperform Votes 283 54.74%

Which has higher valuation & earnings, IHT or XELB?

InnSuites Hospitality Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Xcel Brands. InnSuites Hospitality Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xcel Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
InnSuites Hospitality Trust	$7.59M	2.86	$200K	-$0.16	-15.46
Xcel Brands	$9.34M	0.64	-$21.05M	-$10.30	-0.25

Do insiders & institutionals believe in IHT or XELB?

2.5% of InnSuites Hospitality Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.5% of Xcel Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 73.9% of InnSuites Hospitality Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 44.3% of Xcel Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is IHT or XELB more profitable?

InnSuites Hospitality Trust has a net margin of -11.56% compared to Xcel Brands' net margin of -236.80%. Xcel Brands' return on equity of -19.20% beat InnSuites Hospitality Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
InnSuites Hospitality Trust	-11.56%	-40.28%	-5.83%
Xcel Brands	-236.80%	-19.20%	-12.85%

Which has more risk and volatility, IHT or XELB?

InnSuites Hospitality Trust has a beta of 0.12, suggesting that its stock price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xcel Brands has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts rate IHT or XELB?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
InnSuites Hospitality Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Xcel Brands	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the media favor IHT or XELB?

In the previous week, Xcel Brands had 11 more articles in the media than InnSuites Hospitality Trust. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Xcel Brands and 1 mentions for InnSuites Hospitality Trust. InnSuites Hospitality Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Xcel Brands' score of 0.03 indicating that InnSuites Hospitality Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
InnSuites Hospitality Trust	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Xcel Brands	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

Xcel Brands beats InnSuites Hospitality Trust on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.