GES vs. SPHR, LZB, VSCO, OSW, AMWD, PTON, CAL, MCRI, GIII, and PRDO
Should you be buying Guess? stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guess? include Sphere Entertainment (SPHR), La-Z-Boy (LZB), Victoria's Secret & Co. (VSCO), OneSpaWorld (OSW), American Woodmark (AMWD), Peloton Interactive (PTON), Caleres (CAL), Monarch Casino & Resort (MCRI), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), and Perdoceo Education (PRDO). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Guess? (NYSE:GES) and Sphere Entertainment (NYSE:SPHR) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.
Guess? received 474 more outperform votes than Sphere Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.38% of users gave Guess? an outperform vote while only 22.22% of users gave Sphere Entertainment an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Sphere Entertainment had 2 more articles in the media than Guess?. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Sphere Entertainment and 2 mentions for Guess?. Guess?'s average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Sphere Entertainment's score of 0.80 indicating that Guess? is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Guess? has a beta of 1.98, suggesting that its share price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sphere Entertainment has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Guess? presently has a consensus price target of $32.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.95%. Sphere Entertainment has a consensus price target of $35.60, indicating a potential downside of 1.22%. Given Guess?'s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Guess? is more favorable than Sphere Entertainment.
Sphere Entertainment has a net margin of 43.36% compared to Guess?'s net margin of 7.14%. Guess?'s return on equity of 30.02% beat Sphere Entertainment's return on equity.
61.7% of Guess? shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Sphere Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 30.3% of Guess? shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.5% of Sphere Entertainment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sphere Entertainment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Guess?. Sphere Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Guess?, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Guess? beats Sphere Entertainment on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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