VSCO vs. MCRI, GES, PLYA, GIII, LZB, OSW, CAL, SPHR, RSI, and AMWD
Should you be buying Victoria's Secret & Co. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Victoria's Secret & Co. include Monarch Casino & Resort (MCRI), Guess? (GES), Playa Hotels & Resorts (PLYA), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), La-Z-Boy (LZB), OneSpaWorld (OSW), Caleres (CAL), Sphere Entertainment (SPHR), Rush Street Interactive (RSI), and American Woodmark (AMWD). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Victoria's Secret & Co. (NYSE:VSCO) and Monarch Casino & Resort (NASDAQ:MCRI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Monarch Casino & Resort has a net margin of 16.40% compared to Victoria's Secret & Co.'s net margin of 1.77%. Victoria's Secret & Co.'s return on equity of 56.40% beat Monarch Casino & Resort's return on equity.
90.3% of Victoria's Secret & Co. shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.4% of Monarch Casino & Resort shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Victoria's Secret & Co. shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.6% of Monarch Casino & Resort shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Victoria's Secret & Co. has a beta of 2.07, suggesting that its share price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Monarch Casino & Resort has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Monarch Casino & Resort received 275 more outperform votes than Victoria's Secret & Co. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.47% of users gave Monarch Casino & Resort an outperform vote while only 17.00% of users gave Victoria's Secret & Co. an outperform vote.
Victoria's Secret & Co. currently has a consensus price target of $21.27, suggesting a potential upside of 25.21%. Monarch Casino & Resort has a consensus price target of $73.33, suggesting a potential upside of 6.98%. Given Victoria's Secret & Co.'s higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Victoria's Secret & Co. is more favorable than Monarch Casino & Resort.
Victoria's Secret & Co. has higher revenue and earnings than Monarch Casino & Resort. Victoria's Secret & Co. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Monarch Casino & Resort, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Monarch Casino & Resort had 3 more articles in the media than Victoria's Secret & Co.. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Monarch Casino & Resort and 6 mentions for Victoria's Secret & Co.. Victoria's Secret & Co.'s average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Monarch Casino & Resort's score of 0.47 indicating that Victoria's Secret & Co. is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Monarch Casino & Resort beats Victoria's Secret & Co. on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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