AKA vs. BYON, LE, LESL, ONEW, LOVE, HVT.A, REAL, BBW, MYTE, and NEGG
Should you be buying a.k.a. Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of a.k.a. Brands include Beyond (BYON), Lands' End (LE), Leslie's (LESL), OneWater Marine (ONEW), Lovesac (LOVE), Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT.A), RealReal (REAL), Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), and Newegg Commerce (NEGG). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.
Beyond (NYSE:BYON) and a.k.a. Brands (NYSE:AKA) 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 media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Beyond currently has a consensus price target of $29.50, indicating a potential upside of 113.61%. a.k.a. Brands has a consensus price target of $14.50, indicating a potential downside of 11.53%. Given a.k.a. Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Beyond is more favorable than a.k.a. Brands.
Beyond has a beta of 3.7, suggesting that its stock price is 270% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, a.k.a. Brands has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
76.3% of Beyond shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.3% of a.k.a. Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Beyond shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of a.k.a. Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
a.k.a. Brands has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Beyond. a.k.a. Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Beyond, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
a.k.a. Brands received 4 more outperform votes than Beyond when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Beyond an outperform vote while only 31.15% of users gave a.k.a. Brands an outperform vote.
a.k.a. Brands has a net margin of -18.11% compared to a.k.a. Brands' net margin of -23.67%. Beyond's return on equity of -17.80% beat a.k.a. Brands' return on equity.
In the previous week, Beyond had 8 more articles in the media than a.k.a. Brands. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Beyond and 3 mentions for a.k.a. Brands. a.k.a. Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Beyond's score of 0.06 indicating that Beyond is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Beyond beats a.k.a. Brands on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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