WSM vs. RH, HVT, KIRK, TTSH, TCS, MELI, CMG, ORLY, CVS, and TGT
Should you be buying Williams-Sonoma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Williams-Sonoma include RH (RH), Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT), Kirkland's (KIRK), Tile Shop (TTSH), The Container Store Group (TCS), MercadoLibre (MELI), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), CVS Health (CVS), and Target (TGT).
Williams-Sonoma vs.
RH (NYSE:RH) and Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:WSM) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.
In the previous week, RH had 33 more articles in the media than Williams-Sonoma. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for RH and 8 mentions for Williams-Sonoma. Williams-Sonoma's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat RH's score of -0.12 indicating that Williams-Sonoma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RH has a beta of 2.43, suggesting that its stock price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Williams-Sonoma has a beta of 1.79, suggesting that its stock price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500.
RH received 121 more outperform votes than Williams-Sonoma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.99% of users gave RH an outperform vote while only 49.27% of users gave Williams-Sonoma an outperform vote.
90.2% of RH shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of Williams-Sonoma shares are held by institutional investors. 28.1% of RH shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Williams-Sonoma shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Williams-Sonoma has higher revenue and earnings than RH. Williams-Sonoma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RH, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Williams-Sonoma has a net margin of 14.54% compared to RH's net margin of 2.25%. Williams-Sonoma's return on equity of 51.56% beat RH's return on equity.
RH presently has a consensus price target of $421.73, suggesting a potential upside of 0.71%. Williams-Sonoma has a consensus price target of $160.03, suggesting a potential downside of 18.08%. Given RH's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe RH is more favorable than Williams-Sonoma.
Summary
RH and Williams-Sonoma tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:WSM) was last updated on 1/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
