CULP vs. CRWS, BZFD, BEDU, SOND, TOON, CNXA, GORV, CURI, BODI, and PMNT
Should you be buying Culp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Culp include Crown Crafts (CRWS), BuzzFeed (BZFD), Bright Scholar Education (BEDU), Sonder (SOND), Kartoon Studios (TOON), Connexa Sports Technologies (CNXA), Lazydays (GORV), CuriosityStream (CURI), Beachbody (BODI), and Perfect Moment (PMNT). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Culp (NYSE:CULP) and Crown Crafts (NASDAQ:CRWS) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
Culp received 48 more outperform votes than Crown Crafts when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Crown Crafts an outperform vote while only 52.82% of users gave Culp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Culp had 10 more articles in the media than Crown Crafts. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Culp and 2 mentions for Crown Crafts. Culp's average media sentiment score of -0.15 beat Crown Crafts' score of -0.50 indicating that Culp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
75.1% of Culp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.2% of Crown Crafts shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.6% of Culp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Crown Crafts shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Culp has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown Crafts has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Crown Crafts has a net margin of 5.44% compared to Culp's net margin of -5.75%. Crown Crafts' return on equity of 10.02% beat Culp's return on equity.
Crown Crafts has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Culp. Culp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown Crafts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Crown Crafts beats Culp on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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