CNXN vs. QRTEA, SFIX, LITB, NSIT, RVLV, JMIA, HEPS, PZZA, WMK, and QRTEB
Should you be buying PC Connection stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PC Connection include Qurate Retail (QRTEA), Stitch Fix (SFIX), LightInTheBox (LITB), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), Revolve Group (RVLV), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), Papa John's International (PZZA), Weis Markets (WMK), and Qurate Retail (QRTEB).
PC Connection (NASDAQ:CNXN) and Qurate Retail (NASDAQ:QRTEA) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
PC Connection has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Qurate Retail has a beta of 2.75, meaning that its share price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Qurate Retail received 540 more outperform votes than PC Connection when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.28% of users gave Qurate Retail an outperform vote while only 62.95% of users gave PC Connection an outperform vote.
Qurate Retail has a consensus target price of $1.10, suggesting a potential upside of 48.31%. Given Qurate Retail's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Qurate Retail is more favorable than PC Connection.
PC Connection has a net margin of 2.98% compared to Qurate Retail's net margin of -1.56%. Qurate Retail's return on equity of 23.19% beat PC Connection's return on equity.
PC Connection has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Qurate Retail. Qurate Retail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PC Connection, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Qurate Retail had 1 more articles in the media than PC Connection. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Qurate Retail and 1 mentions for PC Connection. PC Connection's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Qurate Retail's score of 0.00 indicating that PC Connection is being referred to more favorably in the media.
42.9% of PC Connection shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.1% of Qurate Retail shares are held by institutional investors. 56.9% of PC Connection shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.2% of Qurate Retail shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
PC Connection and Qurate Retail tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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