KIRK vs. BBBY, HOME, W, WSM, RH, HVT, AAN, YJ, BQ, and SECOY
Should you be buying Kirkland's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kirkland's include Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY), At Home Group (HOME), Wayfair (W), Williams-Sonoma (WSM), RH (RH), Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT), Aaron's (AAN), Yunji (YJ), Boqii (BQ), and Secoo (SECOY).
Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ:BBBY) and Kirkland's (NASDAQ:KIRK) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Bed Bath & Beyond has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kirkland's has a beta of 2.27, suggesting that its stock price is 127% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kirkland's had 10 more articles in the media than Bed Bath & Beyond. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Kirkland's and 1 mentions for Bed Bath & Beyond. Bed Bath & Beyond's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Kirkland's' score of 0.00 indicating that Kirkland's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kirkland's has a net margin of -5.92% compared to Kirkland's' net margin of -20.54%. Kirkland's' return on equity of 0.00% beat Bed Bath & Beyond's return on equity.
Kirkland's has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bed Bath & Beyond. Kirkland's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bed Bath & Beyond, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kirkland's has a consensus price target of $4.88, indicating a potential upside of 120.59%. Given Bed Bath & Beyond's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kirkland's is more favorable than Bed Bath & Beyond.
64.2% of Bed Bath & Beyond shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.4% of Kirkland's shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Bed Bath & Beyond shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Kirkland's shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Bed Bath & Beyond received 431 more outperform votes than Kirkland's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.22% of users gave Kirkland's an outperform vote while only 52.06% of users gave Bed Bath & Beyond an outperform vote.
Summary
Kirkland's beats Bed Bath & Beyond on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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