LL vs. HD, LOW, JCTCF, BLDR, FND, CATO, BIRD, SPWH, PLCE, and RRGB
Should you be buying LL Flooring stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LL Flooring include Home Depot (HD), Lowe's Companies (LOW), Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTCF), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Floor & Decor (FND), Cato (CATO), Allbirds (BIRD), Sportsman's Warehouse (SPWH), Children's Place (PLCE), and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and LL Flooring (NYSE:LL) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, Home Depot had 21 more articles in the media than LL Flooring. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Home Depot and 5 mentions for LL Flooring. LL Flooring's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Home Depot's score of 0.30 indicating that Home Depot is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Home Depot received 1247 more outperform votes than LL Flooring when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.53% of users gave Home Depot an outperform vote while only 54.47% of users gave LL Flooring an outperform vote.
70.9% of Home Depot shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.3% of LL Flooring shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Home Depot shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of LL Flooring shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Home Depot has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LL Flooring has a beta of 1.73, suggesting that its share price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Home Depot currently has a consensus target price of $381.80, indicating a potential upside of 6.16%. LL Flooring has a consensus target price of $1.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.62%. Given LL Flooring's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Home Depot is more favorable than LL Flooring.
Home Depot has higher revenue and earnings than LL Flooring. LL Flooring is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home Depot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Home Depot has a net margin of 9.79% compared to Home Depot's net margin of -14.30%. LL Flooring's return on equity of 1,056.67% beat Home Depot's return on equity.
Summary
Home Depot beats LL Flooring on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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