RH vs. LANC, FLO, FIZZ, OLLI, FRPT, BROS, NTCOY, POST, IPAR, and BRFS
Should you be buying RH stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RH include Lancaster Colony (LANC), Flowers Foods (FLO), National Beverage (FIZZ), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), Freshpet (FRPT), Dutch Bros (BROS), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Post (POST), Inter Parfums (IPAR), and BRF (BRFS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Lancaster Colony (NASDAQ:LANC) and RH (NYSE:RH) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
Lancaster Colony has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RH has a beta of 2.54, meaning that its share price is 154% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lancaster Colony currently has a consensus price target of $198.75, indicating a potential upside of 3.78%. RH has a consensus price target of $332.15, indicating a potential upside of 19.30%. Given Lancaster Colony's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe RH is more favorable than Lancaster Colony.
RH has higher revenue and earnings than Lancaster Colony. Lancaster Colony is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RH, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, RH had 4 more articles in the media than Lancaster Colony. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for RH and 9 mentions for Lancaster Colony. RH's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Lancaster Colony's score of 0.65 indicating that Lancaster Colony is being referred to more favorably in the media.
66.4% of Lancaster Colony shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.2% of RH shares are held by institutional investors. 29.6% of Lancaster Colony shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.9% of RH shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
RH received 417 more outperform votes than Lancaster Colony when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.24% of users gave Lancaster Colony an outperform vote while only 62.47% of users gave RH an outperform vote.
Lancaster Colony has a net margin of 7.10% compared to Lancaster Colony's net margin of 4.21%. RH's return on equity of 18.96% beat Lancaster Colony's return on equity.
Summary
RH beats Lancaster Colony on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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