CRWS vs. CULP, JAKK, VIRC, EVC, ESCA, HOFT, FLXS, SOWG, KNDI, and FLL
Should you be buying Crown Crafts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown Crafts include Culp (CULP), JAKKS Pacific (JAKK), Virco Mfg. (VIRC), Entravision Communications (EVC), Escalade (ESCA), Hooker Furnishings (HOFT), Flexsteel Industries (FLXS), Sow Good (SOWG), Kandi Technologies Group (KNDI), and Full House Resorts (FLL). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Crown Crafts (NASDAQ:CRWS) and Culp (NYSE:CULP) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Crown Crafts pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Culp pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.4%. Crown Crafts pays out 68.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Culp pays out -41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Culp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Crown Crafts has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Culp has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Crown Crafts has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Culp. Culp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown Crafts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Culp had 8 more articles in the media than Crown Crafts. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Culp and 3 mentions for Crown Crafts. Crown Crafts' average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Culp's score of 0.34 indicating that Crown Crafts is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Culp received 48 more outperform votes than Crown Crafts when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Crown Crafts an outperform vote while only 52.23% of users gave Culp an outperform vote.
Crown Crafts has a net margin of 5.44% compared to Culp's net margin of -5.75%. Crown Crafts' return on equity of 10.02% beat Culp's return on equity.
30.2% of Crown Crafts shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Culp shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Crown Crafts shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Culp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Crown Crafts beats Culp on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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