AGS vs. SNBR, FNKO, MCFT, SSP, EEX, HBB, REAL, CDRO, MYPS, and GHG
Should you be buying PlayAGS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PlayAGS include Sleep Number (SNBR), Funko (FNKO), MasterCraft Boat (MCFT), E.W. Scripps (SSP), Emerald (EEX), Hamilton Beach Brands (HBB), RealReal (REAL), Codere Online Luxembourg (CDRO), PLAYSTUDIOS (MYPS), and GreenTree Hospitality Group (GHG). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
PlayAGS (NYSE:AGS) and Sleep Number (NASDAQ:SNBR) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.
PlayAGS presently has a consensus price target of $12.20, suggesting a potential upside of 38.64%. Sleep Number has a consensus price target of $13.17, suggesting a potential downside of 9.51%. Given PlayAGS's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe PlayAGS is more favorable than Sleep Number.
In the previous week, Sleep Number had 18 more articles in the media than PlayAGS. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Sleep Number and 3 mentions for PlayAGS. Sleep Number's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat PlayAGS's score of 0.50 indicating that Sleep Number is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PlayAGS has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sleep Number. Sleep Number is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PlayAGS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PlayAGS has a net margin of 0.12% compared to Sleep Number's net margin of -1.87%. PlayAGS's return on equity of 0.69% beat Sleep Number's return on equity.
PlayAGS has a beta of 2.4, meaning that its share price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sleep Number has a beta of 1.96, meaning that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sleep Number received 182 more outperform votes than PlayAGS when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.04% of users gave PlayAGS an outperform vote while only 57.49% of users gave Sleep Number an outperform vote.
77.4% of PlayAGS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.7% of Sleep Number shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of PlayAGS shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.8% of Sleep Number 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.
Summary
PlayAGS beats Sleep Number on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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