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AKA vs. HNST, SGU, HVT.A, BNED, HITI, ONEW, TTSH, NXXT, LOVE, and BZUN

Should you be buying a.k.a. Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of a.k.a. Brands include Honest (HNST), Star Group (SGU), Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT.A), Barnes & Noble Education (BNED), High Tide (HITI), OneWater Marine (ONEW), Tile Shop Hldgs (TTSH), NextNRG (NXXT), Lovesac (LOVE), and Baozun (BZUN). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.

a.k.a. Brands vs. Its Competitors

Honest (NASDAQ:HNST) and a.k.a. Brands (NYSE:AKA) are both small-cap retail companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Honest has a beta of 2.29, indicating that its share price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, a.k.a. Brands has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Honest has a net margin of 1.66% compared to a.k.a. Brands' net margin of -4.48%. Honest's return on equity of 3.84% beat a.k.a. Brands' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Honest1.66% 3.84% 2.67%
a.k.a. Brands -4.48%-21.06%-6.33%

Honest presently has a consensus target price of $6.96, suggesting a potential upside of 91.16%. a.k.a. Brands has a consensus target price of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 34.27%. Given Honest's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Honest is more favorable than a.k.a. Brands.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Honest
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.63
a.k.a. Brands
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Honest$378.34M1.07-$6.12M$0.0572.80
a.k.a. Brands$574.70M0.28-$25.99M-$2.51-5.93

45.5% of Honest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of a.k.a. Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.9% of Honest shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.6% of a.k.a. Brands shares are owned by 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, a.k.a. Brands had 7 more articles in the media than Honest. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for a.k.a. Brands and 1 mentions for Honest. a.k.a. Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Honest's score of 0.59 indicating that a.k.a. Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Honest
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
a.k.a. Brands
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Honest beats a.k.a. Brands on 11 of the 16 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 NYSE 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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AKA vs. The Competition

Metrica.k.a. BrandsRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$139.46M$8.46B$27.06B$21.75B
Dividend YieldN/A2.93%172.46%3.62%
P/E Ratio-5.9323.3419.6832.43
Price / Sales0.281.268.9158.82
Price / CashN/A19.2662.7224.38
Price / Book1.353.775.104.59
Net Income-$25.99M$368.88M$911.72M$1.02B
7 Day Performance58.54%3.91%2.07%1.31%
1 Month Performance43.22%-5.01%-4.73%-1.47%
1 Year Performance-42.56%-4.01%11.21%9.54%

a.k.a. Brands Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AKA
a.k.a. Brands
3.459 of 5 stars
$14.90
+15.8%
$20.00
+34.3%
-41.3%$139.46M$574.70M-5.931,350News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↓
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
HNST
Honest
2.8367 of 5 stars
$3.97
+8.2%
$6.96
+75.3%
-3.7%$408.36M$378.34M79.42190
SGU
Star Group
3.95 of 5 stars
$11.89
+0.3%
N/A-1.5%$398.24M$1.77B9.013,039Dividend Announcement
HVT.A
Haverty Furniture Companies
N/A$21.50
-1.1%
N/A-26.3%$341.44M$722.90M18.702,840Gap Down
High Trading Volume
BNED
Barnes & Noble Education
0.0673 of 5 stars
$9.57
-2.2%
N/A-5.0%$333.39M$1.57B-0.623,750Upcoming Earnings
HITI
High Tide
1.6435 of 5 stars
$3.59
+0.6%
$6.13
+70.6%
+30.6%$310.99M$381.22M-44.881,550
ONEW
OneWater Marine
3.9477 of 5 stars
$15.43
-4.6%
$19.60
+27.0%
-35.0%$264.87M$1.79B-19.052,203News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
TTSH
Tile Shop Hldgs
0.1657 of 5 stars
$5.79
-2.0%
N/A-8.8%$264.54M$347.07M0.001,291News Coverage
High Trading Volume
NXXT
NextNRG
2.8312 of 5 stars
$2.07
+4.0%
$5.50
+165.7%
N/A$249.89M$49.74M-0.3154Short Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
LOVE
Lovesac
4.6904 of 5 stars
$16.13
-3.6%
$30.00
+86.0%
-51.3%$244.58M$680.63M25.602,024News Coverage
BZUN
Baozun
3.0829 of 5 stars
$3.84
-2.5%
$4.20
+9.4%
+1.2%$227.66M$1.29B-8.737,650Short Interest ↓

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This page (NYSE:AKA) was last updated on 10/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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