BALY vs. ARKO, LEGH, BBW, KFS, TDUP, TLYS, SLNAW, CAAS, SUP, and NTZ
Should you be buying Bally's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bally's include Arko (ARKO), Legacy Housing (LEGH), Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), Kingsway Financial Services (KFS), ThredUp (TDUP), Tilly's (TLYS), Selina Hospitality (SLNAW), China Automotive Systems (CAAS), Superior Industries International (SUP), and Natuzzi (NTZ).
Arko (NASDAQ:ARKO) and Bally's (NYSE:BALY) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
78.3% of Arko shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Bally's shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.2% of Arko shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.9% of Bally's shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Arko has a beta of 0.28, meaning that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bally's has a beta of 2.08, meaning that its stock price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bally's had 2 more articles in the media than Arko. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Bally's and 6 mentions for Arko. Arko's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Bally's' score of -0.19 indicating that Bally's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Arko presently has a consensus target price of $8.25, indicating a potential upside of 93.66%. Bally's has a consensus target price of $15.29, indicating a potential upside of 11.74%. Given Bally's' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Arko is more favorable than Bally's.
Arko has higher revenue and earnings than Bally's. Bally's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arko, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Arko has a net margin of 0.37% compared to Arko's net margin of -7.05%. Bally's' return on equity of 12.32% beat Arko's return on equity.
Bally's received 9 more outperform votes than Arko when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 40.00% of users gave Arko an outperform vote while only 32.86% of users gave Bally's an outperform vote.
Summary
Arko beats Bally's on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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