CODI vs. LZB, LEG, SNBR, FLXS, HOFT, PRPL, NTZ, NVFY, TPX, and FR
Should you be buying Compass Diversified stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Compass Diversified include La-Z-Boy (LZB), Leggett & Platt (LEG), Sleep Number (SNBR), Flexsteel Industries (FLXS), Hooker Furnishings (HOFT), Purple Innovation (PRPL), Natuzzi (NTZ), Nova LifeStyle (NVFY), Tempur Sealy International (TPX), and First Industrial Realty Trust (FR).
La-Z-Boy (NYSE:LZB) and Compass Diversified (NYSE:CODI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
La-Z-Boy has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compass Diversified has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Compass Diversified has higher revenue and earnings than La-Z-Boy. La-Z-Boy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Compass Diversified, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
99.6% of La-Z-Boy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.7% of Compass Diversified shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of La-Z-Boy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Compass Diversified shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, La-Z-Boy had 2 more articles in the media than Compass Diversified. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for La-Z-Boy and 2 mentions for Compass Diversified. Compass Diversified's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat La-Z-Boy's score of 0.51 indicating that La-Z-Boy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Compass Diversified received 19 more outperform votes than La-Z-Boy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.83% of users gave La-Z-Boy an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave Compass Diversified an outperform vote.
Compass Diversified has a consensus price target of $26.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.65%. Given La-Z-Boy's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Compass Diversified is more favorable than La-Z-Boy.
La-Z-Boy pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Compass Diversified pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. La-Z-Boy pays out 28.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Compass Diversified pays out 588.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
La-Z-Boy has a net margin of 5.99% compared to La-Z-Boy's net margin of 4.61%. Compass Diversified's return on equity of 13.10% beat La-Z-Boy's return on equity.
Summary
La-Z-Boy beats Compass Diversified on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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