LL vs. JCTCF, ARKR, HOUR, TGL, LGCB, FOSL, FARM, LVLU, WBUY, and GTIM
Should you be buying LL Flooring stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LL Flooring include Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTCF), Ark Restaurants (ARKR), Hour Loop (HOUR), Treasure Global (TGL), Linkage Global (LGCB), Fossil Group (FOSL), Farmer Bros. (FARM), Lulu's Fashion Lounge (LVLU), Webuy Global (WBUY), and Good Times Restaurants (GTIM). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
LL Flooring (NYSE:LL) and Jewett-Cameron Trading (NASDAQ:JCTCF) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation and risk.
LL Flooring presently has a consensus target price of $2.00, suggesting a potential upside of 31.58%. Given LL Flooring's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LL Flooring is more favorable than Jewett-Cameron Trading.
LL Flooring has a beta of 1.85, meaning that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jewett-Cameron Trading has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
54.3% of LL Flooring shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.1% of Jewett-Cameron Trading shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of LL Flooring shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Jewett-Cameron Trading shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, LL Flooring had 3 more articles in the media than Jewett-Cameron Trading. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for LL Flooring and 0 mentions for Jewett-Cameron Trading. LL Flooring's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Jewett-Cameron Trading's score of 0.00 indicating that LL Flooring is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Jewett-Cameron Trading has a net margin of 3.46% compared to LL Flooring's net margin of -14.30%. Jewett-Cameron Trading's return on equity of 7.26% beat LL Flooring's return on equity.
LL Flooring received 419 more outperform votes than Jewett-Cameron Trading when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.93% of users gave Jewett-Cameron Trading an outperform vote while only 54.69% of users gave LL Flooring an outperform vote.
Jewett-Cameron Trading has lower revenue, but higher earnings than LL Flooring. LL Flooring is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jewett-Cameron Trading, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
LL Flooring and Jewett-Cameron Trading tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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