EWCZ vs. XPOF, LIND, RICK, EXFO, YELP, CSV, EM, WW, PET, and MRM
Should you be buying European Wax Center stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of European Wax Center include Xponential Fitness (XPOF), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), RCI Hospitality (RICK), EXFO (EXFO), Yelp (YELP), Carriage Services (CSV), Smart Share Global (EM), WW International (WW), Wag! Group (PET), and MEDIROM Healthcare Technologies (MRM).
Xponential Fitness (NYSE:XPOF) and European Wax Center (NASDAQ:EWCZ) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and earnings.
European Wax Center has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Xponential Fitness. Xponential Fitness is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than European Wax Center, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Xponential Fitness currently has a consensus price target of $21.50, indicating a potential upside of 137.31%. European Wax Center has a consensus price target of $16.33, indicating a potential upside of 44.29%. Given European Wax Center's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Xponential Fitness is more favorable than European Wax Center.
In the previous week, European Wax Center had 1 more articles in the media than Xponential Fitness. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for European Wax Center and 5 mentions for Xponential Fitness. European Wax Center's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Xponential Fitness' score of 0.81 indicating that Xponential Fitness is being referred to more favorably in the media.
European Wax Center has a net margin of 5.50% compared to European Wax Center's net margin of 1.90%. Xponential Fitness' return on equity of 11.01% beat European Wax Center's return on equity.
58.6% of Xponential Fitness shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.1% of European Wax Center shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.8% of Xponential Fitness shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of European Wax Center shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Xponential Fitness has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, European Wax Center has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Xponential Fitness received 6 more outperform votes than European Wax Center when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.71% of users gave Xponential Fitness an outperform vote while only 54.10% of users gave European Wax Center an outperform vote.
Summary
European Wax Center beats Xponential Fitness on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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