QRTEA vs. LITB, BYON, JMIA, HEPS, DDL, MYTE, HNST, SFIX, TDUP, and DIBS Should you be buying Qurate Retail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Qurate Retail include LightInTheBox (LITB), Beyond (BYON), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), Honest (HNST), Stitch Fix (SFIX), ThredUp (TDUP), and 1stdibs.Com (DIBS).
Qurate Retail (NASDAQ:QRTEA ) and LightInTheBox (NYSE:LITB ) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
Qurate Retail received 622 more outperform votes than LightInTheBox when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.23% of users gave Qurate Retail an outperform vote while only 52.29% of users gave LightInTheBox an outperform vote.
64.1% of Qurate Retail shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.8% of LightInTheBox shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of Qurate Retail shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 62.2% of LightInTheBox shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Qurate Retail has a net margin of -1.56% compared to LightInTheBox's net margin of -1.71%. Qurate Retail's return on equity of 23.19% beat LightInTheBox's return on equity.
LightInTheBox has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Qurate Retail. LightInTheBox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Qurate Retail, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Qurate Retail currently has a consensus price target of $1.10, indicating a potential upside of 54.58%. Given Qurate Retail's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Qurate Retail is more favorable than LightInTheBox.
Qurate Retail has a beta of 2.75, suggesting that its stock price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LightInTheBox has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, LightInTheBox had 8 more articles in the media than Qurate Retail. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for LightInTheBox and 4 mentions for Qurate Retail. Qurate Retail's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat LightInTheBox's score of 0.12 indicating that Qurate Retail is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary Qurate Retail beats LightInTheBox on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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