CSV vs. EWCZ, BYND, MED, SENEA, LMNR, YSG, CBUS, LWAY, DJCO, and TPB
Should you be buying Carriage Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carriage Services include European Wax Center (EWCZ), Beyond Meat (BYND), Medifast (MED), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Limoneira (LMNR), Yatsen (YSG), Cibus (CBUS), Lifeway Foods (LWAY), Daily Journal (DJCO), and Turning Point Brands (TPB). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Carriage Services (NYSE:CSV) and European Wax Center (NASDAQ:EWCZ) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Carriage Services has higher revenue and earnings than European Wax Center. Carriage Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than European Wax Center, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Carriage Services has a net margin of 8.73% compared to European Wax Center's net margin of 4.04%. Carriage Services' return on equity of 21.39% beat European Wax Center's return on equity.
In the previous week, Carriage Services had 2 more articles in the media than European Wax Center. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Carriage Services and 4 mentions for European Wax Center. European Wax Center's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Carriage Services' score of 0.31 indicating that European Wax Center is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Carriage Services has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, European Wax Center has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Carriage Services received 267 more outperform votes than European Wax Center when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.60% of users gave Carriage Services an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave European Wax Center an outperform vote.
Carriage Services presently has a consensus target price of $38.00, suggesting a potential upside of 53.54%. European Wax Center has a consensus target price of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 47.70%. Given Carriage Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Carriage Services is more favorable than European Wax Center.
66.5% of Carriage Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.1% of European Wax Center shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.1% of Carriage Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of European Wax Center shares are owned by 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.
Summary
Carriage Services beats European Wax Center on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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