WHR vs. SN, GIL, RRR, VFC, REYN, BYD, BC, PLNT, NXST, and CHH
Should you be buying Whirlpool stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Whirlpool include SharkNinja (SN), Gildan Activewear (GIL), Red Rock Resorts (RRR), V.F. (VFC), Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN), Boyd Gaming (BYD), Brunswick (BC), Planet Fitness (PLNT), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), and Choice Hotels International (CHH). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
SharkNinja (NYSE:SN) and Whirlpool (NYSE:WHR) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and profitability.
Whirlpool received 607 more outperform votes than SharkNinja when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 85.71% of users gave SharkNinja an outperform vote while only 64.73% of users gave Whirlpool an outperform vote.
Whirlpool has a consensus target price of $122.17, suggesting a potential upside of 16.14%. Given SharkNinja's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Whirlpool is more favorable than SharkNinja.
In the previous week, Whirlpool had 9 more articles in the media than SharkNinja. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Whirlpool and 8 mentions for SharkNinja. SharkNinja's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Whirlpool's score of 0.44 indicating that Whirlpool is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
90.9% of Whirlpool shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Whirlpool shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SharkNinja has a net margin of 3.93% compared to SharkNinja's net margin of 2.47%. SharkNinja's return on equity of 38.67% beat Whirlpool's return on equity.
Whirlpool has higher revenue and earnings than SharkNinja.
Summary
Whirlpool beats SharkNinja on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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