LVO vs. STKS, JAX, IHRT, FRGI, SGA, DIN, TAST, CHUY, BH, and RICK
Should you be buying LiveOne stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LiveOne include ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), J. Alexander's (JAX), iHeartMedia (IHRT), Fiesta Restaurant Group (FRGI), Saga Communications (SGA), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Chuy's (CHUY), Biglari (BH), and RCI Hospitality (RICK).
ONE Group Hospitality (NASDAQ:STKS) and LiveOne (NASDAQ:LVO) 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.
ONE Group Hospitality has a beta of 2.42, meaning that its stock price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LiveOne has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ONE Group Hospitality has a net margin of 0.01% compared to ONE Group Hospitality's net margin of -13.07%. LiveOne's return on equity of 6.18% beat ONE Group Hospitality's return on equity.
29.1% of ONE Group Hospitality shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.3% of LiveOne shares are held by institutional investors. 19.7% of ONE Group Hospitality shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.1% of LiveOne shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ONE Group Hospitality has higher revenue and earnings than LiveOne.
ONE Group Hospitality received 188 more outperform votes than LiveOne when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.99% of users gave ONE Group Hospitality an outperform vote while only 45.45% of users gave LiveOne an outperform vote.
ONE Group Hospitality currently has a consensus target price of $7.67, suggesting a potential upside of 47.44%. LiveOne has a consensus target price of $3.50, suggesting a potential upside of 112.12%. Given ONE Group Hospitality's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe LiveOne is more favorable than ONE Group Hospitality.
In the previous week, LiveOne had 2 more articles in the media than ONE Group Hospitality. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for LiveOne and 1 mentions for ONE Group Hospitality. LiveOne's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat ONE Group Hospitality's score of 1.11 indicating that ONE Group Hospitality is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
ONE Group Hospitality beats LiveOne on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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