CENT vs. CENTA, VSTS, NHTC, HYFM, EDUC, BJ, SRAD, SKX, SIRI, and SN
Should you be buying Central Garden & Pet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Central Garden & Pet include Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), Vestis (VSTS), Natural Health Trends (NHTC), Hydrofarm Holdings Group (HYFM), Educational Development (EDUC), BJ's Wholesale Club (BJ), Sportradar Group (SRAD), Skechers U.S.A. (SKX), Sirius XM (SIRI), and SharkNinja (SN).
Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENTA) and Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENT) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and profitability.
Central Garden & Pet received 70 more outperform votes than Central Garden & Pet when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.96% of users gave Central Garden & Pet an outperform vote while only 59.76% of users gave Central Garden & Pet an outperform vote.
Central Garden & Pet currently has a consensus price target of $41.75, indicating a potential upside of 11.78%. Central Garden & Pet has a consensus price target of $53.50, indicating a potential upside of 23.13%. Given Central Garden & Pet's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Central Garden & Pet is more favorable than Central Garden & Pet.
In the previous week, Central Garden & Pet had 4 more articles in the media than Central Garden & Pet. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Central Garden & Pet and 15 mentions for Central Garden & Pet. Central Garden & Pet's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Central Garden & Pet's score of 0.10 indicating that Central Garden & Pet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
50.8% of Central Garden & Pet shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.1% of Central Garden & Pet shares are held by institutional investors. 20.3% of Central Garden & Pet shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of Central Garden & Pet 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.
Central Garden & Pet has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Central Garden & Pet has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Central Garden & Pet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Central Garden & Pet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Central Garden & Pet beats Central Garden & Pet on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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