WHR vs. SN, WH, BC, CHH, REYN, GIL, BFAM, LBTYA, PLNT, and MAT
Should you be buying Whirlpool stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Whirlpool include SharkNinja (SN), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), Brunswick (BC), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN), Gildan Activewear (GIL), Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Planet Fitness (PLNT), and Mattel (MAT). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Whirlpool (NYSE:WHR) and SharkNinja (NYSE:SN) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, risk, earnings, dividends and valuation.
90.8% of Whirlpool shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.8% of SharkNinja shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Whirlpool shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.1% of SharkNinja shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SharkNinja has a net margin of 3.93% compared to Whirlpool's net margin of 2.47%. Whirlpool's return on equity of 38.67% beat SharkNinja's return on equity.
Whirlpool received 604 more outperform votes than SharkNinja when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 90.00% of users gave SharkNinja an outperform vote while only 64.73% of users gave Whirlpool an outperform vote.
Whirlpool has higher revenue and earnings than SharkNinja.
In the previous week, Whirlpool had 12 more articles in the media than SharkNinja. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Whirlpool and 9 mentions for SharkNinja. SharkNinja's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Whirlpool's score of 0.41 indicating that SharkNinja is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Whirlpool currently has a consensus price target of $114.60, indicating a potential upside of 10.22%. Given Whirlpool's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Whirlpool is more favorable than SharkNinja.
Summary
SharkNinja beats Whirlpool on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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