CURV vs. ZUMZ, CTRN, BH, DENN, BIGC, HEPS, GRPN, JMIA, VLGEA, and LE
Should you be buying Torrid stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Torrid include Zumiez (ZUMZ), Citi Trends (CTRN), Biglari (BH), Denny's (DENN), BigCommerce (BIGC), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), Groupon (GRPN), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), Village Super Market (VLGEA), and Lands' End (LE). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Torrid (NYSE:CURV) and Zumiez (NASDAQ:ZUMZ) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
Torrid currently has a consensus target price of $4.39, indicating a potential downside of 8.48%. Zumiez has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.82%. Given Zumiez's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Zumiez is more favorable than Torrid.
Torrid has a beta of 1.99, indicating that its stock price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zumiez has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Torrid has a net margin of 0.99% compared to Zumiez's net margin of -7.15%. Torrid's return on equity of -5.42% beat Zumiez's return on equity.
Torrid has higher revenue and earnings than Zumiez. Zumiez is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Torrid, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
81.8% of Torrid shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Zumiez shares are held by institutional investors. 9.2% of Torrid shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.2% of Zumiez shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Zumiez received 552 more outperform votes than Torrid when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 47.96% of users gave Zumiez an outperform vote while only 37.70% of users gave Torrid an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Torrid had 2 more articles in the media than Zumiez. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Torrid and 5 mentions for Zumiez. Zumiez's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Torrid's score of -0.07 indicating that Zumiez is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Torrid beats Zumiez on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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