CSV vs. EWCZ, TPB, DJCO, YSG, CRESY, GROV, SENEA, CDZI, PRPL, and LMNR
Should you be buying Carriage Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carriage Services include European Wax Center (EWCZ), Turning Point Brands (TPB), Daily Journal (DJCO), Yatsen (YSG), Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria (CRESY), Grove Collaborative (GROV), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Cadiz (CDZI), Purple Innovation (PRPL), and Limoneira (LMNR). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Carriage Services vs.
Carriage Services (NYSE:CSV) and European Wax Center (NASDAQ:EWCZ) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.
In the previous week, European Wax Center had 2 more articles in the media than Carriage Services. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for European Wax Center and 3 mentions for Carriage Services. European Wax Center's average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Carriage Services' score of 1.27 indicating that European Wax Center is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
72.2% of Carriage Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.8% of European Wax Center shares are held by institutional investors. 12.1% of Carriage Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of European Wax Center shares are held 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.
Carriage Services presently has a consensus price target of $53.50, indicating a potential upside of 95.40%. European Wax Center has a consensus price target of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.50%. Given Carriage Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Carriage Services is more favorable than European Wax Center.
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 9.20% compared to European Wax Center's net margin of 2.31%. European Wax Center's return on equity of 42.57% beat Carriage Services' return on equity.
Carriage Services received 269 more outperform votes than European Wax Center when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.81% of users gave Carriage Services an outperform vote while only 44.44% of users gave European Wax Center an outperform vote.
Carriage Services has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, European Wax Center has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Carriage Services beats European Wax Center on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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