W vs. CHWY, FND, VIPS, FCFS, ASO, RUSHB, ARHS, GO, CWH, and SVV
Should you be buying Wayfair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wayfair include Chewy (CHWY), Floor & Decor (FND), Vipshop (VIPS), FirstCash (FCFS), Academy Sports and Outdoors (ASO), Rush Enterprises (RUSHB), Arhaus (ARHS), Grocery Outlet (GO), Camping World (CWH), and Savers Value Village (SVV). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.
Wayfair (NYSE:W) and Chewy (NYSE:CHWY) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
Wayfair has a beta of 3.43, indicating that its stock price is 243% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chewy has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wayfair received 559 more outperform votes than Chewy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.79% of users gave Wayfair an outperform vote while only 55.23% of users gave Chewy an outperform vote.
Chewy has a net margin of 0.73% compared to Wayfair's net margin of -5.28%. Chewy's return on equity of 16.62% beat Wayfair's return on equity.
In the previous week, Wayfair had 15 more articles in the media than Chewy. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Wayfair and 23 mentions for Chewy. Chewy's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Wayfair's score of 0.44 indicating that Chewy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wayfair currently has a consensus price target of $78.37, suggesting a potential upside of 47.84%. Chewy has a consensus price target of $27.07, suggesting a potential upside of 8.11%. Given Wayfair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Wayfair is more favorable than Chewy.
89.7% of Wayfair shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of Chewy shares are held by institutional investors. 26.8% of Wayfair shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Chewy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Chewy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Wayfair. Wayfair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chewy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Wayfair beats Chewy on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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