BBW vs. VLGEA, QRTEA, LE, HEPS, DENN, CRMT, BIGC, GRPN, NGVC, and MYTE
Should you be buying Build-A-Bear Workshop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Build-A-Bear Workshop include Village Super Market (VLGEA), Qurate Retail (QRTEA), Lands' End (LE), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), Denny's (DENN), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), BigCommerce (BIGC), Groupon (GRPN), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), and MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Village Super Market (NASDAQ:VLGEA) and Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE:BBW) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Village Super Market has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Build-A-Bear Workshop has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Village Super Market pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Build-A-Bear Workshop pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Village Super Market pays out 28.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Build-A-Bear Workshop pays out 21.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Build-A-Bear Workshop has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Village Super Market. Village Super Market is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Build-A-Bear Workshop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Build-A-Bear Workshop had 3 more articles in the media than Village Super Market. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Build-A-Bear Workshop and 1 mentions for Village Super Market. Build-A-Bear Workshop's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Village Super Market's score of 0.00 indicating that Village Super Market is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Build-A-Bear Workshop received 267 more outperform votes than Village Super Market when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.34% of users gave Build-A-Bear Workshop an outperform vote while only 58.93% of users gave Village Super Market an outperform vote.
39.0% of Village Super Market shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.3% of Build-A-Bear Workshop shares are owned by institutional investors. 64.4% of Village Super Market shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Build-A-Bear Workshop shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Build-A-Bear Workshop has a net margin of 10.86% compared to Build-A-Bear Workshop's net margin of 2.39%. Village Super Market's return on equity of 43.26% beat Build-A-Bear Workshop's return on equity.
Build-A-Bear Workshop has a consensus price target of $39.33, suggesting a potential upside of 32.66%. Given Village Super Market's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Build-A-Bear Workshop is more favorable than Village Super Market.
Summary
Build-A-Bear Workshop beats Village Super Market on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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