LESL vs. SBH, WOOF, FLWS, RERE, TITN, SGU, NEGG, BARK, HITI, and NAAS
Should you be buying Leslie's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leslie's include Sally Beauty (SBH), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), ATRenew (RERE), Titan Machinery (TITN), Star Group (SGU), Newegg Commerce (NEGG), BARK (BARK), High Tide (HITI), and NaaS Technology (NAAS). These companies are all part of the "retail stores, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Sally Beauty (NYSE:SBH) and Leslie's (NASDAQ:LESL) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Sally Beauty has higher revenue and earnings than Leslie's. Sally Beauty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Leslie's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sally Beauty has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Leslie's has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sally Beauty currently has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.36%. Leslie's has a consensus target price of $6.26, suggesting a potential upside of 22.18%. Given Sally Beauty's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Leslie's is more favorable than Sally Beauty.
In the previous week, Leslie's had 2 more articles in the media than Sally Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Leslie's and 1 mentions for Sally Beauty. Leslie's' average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Sally Beauty's score of 0.12 indicating that Sally Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sally Beauty has a net margin of 4.36% compared to Sally Beauty's net margin of 1.06%. Leslie's' return on equity of 34.23% beat Sally Beauty's return on equity.
Sally Beauty received 387 more outperform votes than Leslie's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.63% of users gave Sally Beauty an outperform vote while only 40.57% of users gave Leslie's an outperform vote.
Summary
Sally Beauty beats Leslie's on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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