VZIO vs. SONO, MCW, MBC, CABO, LAUR, SIX, CNK, FUN, CENTA, and LEG
Should you be buying VIZIO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VIZIO include Sonos (SONO), Mister Car Wash (MCW), MasterBrand (MBC), Cable One (CABO), Laureate Education (LAUR), Six Flags Entertainment (SIX), Cinemark (CNK), Cedar Fair (FUN), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), and Leggett & Platt (LEG). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Sonos (NASDAQ:SONO) and VIZIO (NYSE:VZIO) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Sonos presently has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.45%. VIZIO has a consensus price target of $10.77, suggesting a potential upside of 0.03%. Given VIZIO's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sonos is more favorable than VIZIO.
In the previous week, Sonos had 6 more articles in the media than VIZIO. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Sonos and 4 mentions for VIZIO. VIZIO's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Sonos' score of 0.08 indicating that Sonos is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sonos received 252 more outperform votes than VIZIO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.47% of users gave Sonos an outperform vote while only 46.84% of users gave VIZIO an outperform vote.
VIZIO has a net margin of 1.68% compared to VIZIO's net margin of -0.28%. Sonos' return on equity of 6.84% beat VIZIO's return on equity.
Sonos has a beta of 1.99, meaning that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VIZIO has a beta of 2.12, meaning that its share price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500.
VIZIO has higher revenue and earnings than Sonos. Sonos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VIZIO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
85.8% of Sonos shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.2% of VIZIO shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Sonos shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 45.1% of VIZIO shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Sonos and VIZIO tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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