CHWY vs. VIPS, W, NSIT, CNXN, RVLV, GCT, BYON, JMIA, HEPS, and DDL
Should you be buying Chewy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chewy include Vipshop (VIPS), Wayfair (W), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), PC Connection (CNXN), Revolve Group (RVLV), GigaCloud Technology (GCT), Beyond (BYON), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), and Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL). These companies are all part of the "catalog & mail - order houses" industry.
Vipshop (NYSE:VIPS) and Chewy (NYSE:CHWY) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.
Vipshop has a net margin of 7.60% compared to Vipshop's net margin of 0.73%. Chewy's return on equity of 23.74% beat Vipshop's return on equity.
48.8% of Vipshop shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of Chewy shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.5% of Vipshop shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Chewy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Vipshop has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chewy has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Chewy had 51 more articles in the media than Vipshop. MarketBeat recorded 57 mentions for Chewy and 6 mentions for Vipshop. Chewy's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Vipshop's score of 0.69 indicating that Vipshop is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vipshop received 376 more outperform votes than Chewy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.80% of users gave Vipshop an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave Chewy an outperform vote.
Vipshop has higher revenue and earnings than Chewy. Vipshop is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chewy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vipshop currently has a consensus price target of $21.60, indicating a potential upside of 34.41%. Chewy has a consensus price target of $26.21, indicating a potential upside of 23.54%. Given Chewy's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Vipshop is more favorable than Chewy.
Summary
Vipshop beats Chewy on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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