BIG vs. ZUMZ, PETS, BH, LOCO, DXLG, QRTEA, BRLT, BBW, VLGEA, and LOVE
Should you be buying Big Lots stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Big Lots include Zumiez (ZUMZ), PetMed Express (PETS), Biglari (BH), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Destination XL Group (DXLG), Qurate Retail (QRTEA), Brilliant Earth Group (BRLT), Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), Village Super Market (VLGEA), and Lovesac (LOVE). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Big Lots vs.
Zumiez (NASDAQ:ZUMZ) and Big Lots (NYSE:BIG) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
Zumiez presently has a consensus target price of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 34.77%. Big Lots has a consensus target price of $16.11, suggesting a potential upside of 45.28%. Given Big Lots' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Big Lots is more favorable than Zumiez.
Big Lots received 96 more outperform votes than Zumiez when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.84% of users gave Big Lots an outperform vote while only 48.52% of users gave Zumiez an outperform vote.
Zumiez has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Big Lots has a beta of 2.01, indicating that its stock price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Zumiez has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Big Lots. Big Lots is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zumiez, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
84.8% of Zumiez shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.2% of Zumiez shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Big Lots shares are owned by company 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, Big Lots had 11 more articles in the media than Zumiez. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Big Lots and 4 mentions for Zumiez. Big Lots' average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Zumiez's score of 0.39 indicating that Big Lots is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Zumiez has a net margin of 2.19% compared to Big Lots' net margin of -3.85%. Zumiez's return on equity of 5.45% beat Big Lots' return on equity.
Summary
Zumiez beats Big Lots on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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