Polished.com (GOED) Competitors

Polished.com (NYSE:GOED) and Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:WSM) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and risk.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in GOED or WSM?

45.3% of Polished.com shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of Williams-Sonoma shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Polished.com shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Williams-Sonoma shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, GOED or WSM?

Williams-Sonoma has higher revenue and earnings than Polished.com. Polished.com is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Williams-Sonoma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Polished.com	$362.31M	0.00	$7.67M	$0.21	N/A
Williams-Sonoma	$7.71B	2.58	$949.76M	$8.83	18.31

Does the MarketBeat Community favor GOED or WSM?

Williams-Sonoma received 712 more outperform votes than Polished.com when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Polished.com an outperform vote while only 49.07% of users gave Williams-Sonoma an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Polished.com	Outperform Votes 3 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes
Williams-Sonoma	Outperform Votes 715 49.07%	Underperform Votes 742 50.93%

Does the media favor GOED or WSM?

In the previous week, Williams-Sonoma had 31 more articles in the media than Polished.com. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Williams-Sonoma and 0 mentions for Polished.com. Williams-Sonoma's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Polished.com's score of 0.20 indicating that Williams-Sonoma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Polished.com	Neutral
Williams-Sonoma	Positive

Which has more volatility & risk, GOED or WSM?

Polished.com has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Williams-Sonoma has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts rate GOED or WSM?

Williams-Sonoma has a consensus target price of $177.06, indicating a potential upside of 9.50%. Given Williams-Sonoma's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Williams-Sonoma is more favorable than Polished.com.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Polished.com	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Williams-Sonoma	1 Sell rating(s)	11 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.37

Is GOED or WSM more profitable?

Williams-Sonoma has a net margin of 14.54% compared to Polished.com's net margin of 3.41%. Williams-Sonoma's return on equity of 51.56% beat Polished.com's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Polished.com	3.41%	10.78%	5.95%
Williams-Sonoma	14.54%	51.56%	21.24%

Summary

Williams-Sonoma beats Polished.com on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.