FOSL vs. LL, THCH, ARKR, RENT, TGL, GRIL, HOUR, LGCB, LVLU, and FARM
Should you be buying Fossil Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fossil Group include LL Flooring (LL), TH International (THCH), Ark Restaurants (ARKR), Rent the Runway (RENT), Treasure Global (TGL), Muscle Maker (GRIL), Hour Loop (HOUR), Linkage Global (LGCB), Lulu's Fashion Lounge (LVLU), and Farmer Bros. (FARM). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
LL Flooring (NYSE:LL) and Fossil Group (NASDAQ:FOSL) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
LL Flooring currently has a consensus target price of $2.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.76%. Given Fossil Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe LL Flooring is more favorable than Fossil Group.
In the previous week, Fossil Group had 3 more articles in the media than LL Flooring. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Fossil Group and 6 mentions for LL Flooring. Fossil Group's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat LL Flooring's score of 0.22 indicating that LL Flooring is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fossil Group received 84 more outperform votes than LL Flooring when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.75% of users gave LL Flooring an outperform vote while only 54.01% of users gave Fossil Group an outperform vote.
Fossil Group has a net margin of -10.44% compared to Fossil Group's net margin of -14.30%. LL Flooring's return on equity of -37.15% beat Fossil Group's return on equity.
54.3% of LL Flooring shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.1% of Fossil Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of LL Flooring shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of Fossil Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
LL Flooring has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fossil Group. Fossil Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LL Flooring, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LL Flooring has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fossil Group has a beta of 2.09, suggesting that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Fossil Group beats LL Flooring on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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