WSM vs. RH, HVT, AAN, KIRK, TTSH, TCS, CVS, CMG, TGT, and ORLY
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), Aaron's (AAN), Kirkland's (KIRK), Tile Shop (TTSH), The Container Store Group (TCS), CVS Health (CVS), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Target (TGT), and O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY).
RH (NYSE:RH) and Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:WSM) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and media sentiment.
RH currently has a consensus price target of $310.79, indicating a potential upside of 10.61%. Williams-Sonoma has a consensus price target of $131.69, indicating a potential downside of 15.31%. Given Williams-Sonoma's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe RH is more favorable than Williams-Sonoma.
In the previous week, RH had 8 more articles in the media than Williams-Sonoma. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for RH and 8 mentions for Williams-Sonoma. RH's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Williams-Sonoma's score of 0.32 indicating that Williams-Sonoma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
RH has a beta of 2.42, indicating that its share price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Williams-Sonoma has a beta of 1.75, indicating that its share price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500.
RH received 114 more outperform votes than Williams-Sonoma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.11% of users gave RH an outperform vote while only 49.29% of users gave Williams-Sonoma an outperform vote.
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 13.83% compared to Williams-Sonoma's net margin of 2.72%. RH's return on equity of 54.50% beat Williams-Sonoma's return on equity.
Summary
RH and Williams-Sonoma tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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