VZIO vs. SONO, VSTO, CNK, FUN, SIX, CMPR, CABO, MBC, MLKN, and RSI Should you be buying VIZIO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VIZIO include Sonos (SONO), Vista Outdoor (VSTO), Cinemark (CNK), Cedar Fair (FUN), Six Flags Entertainment (SIX), Cimpress (CMPR), Cable One (CABO), MasterBrand (MBC), MillerKnoll (MLKN), and Rush Street Interactive (RSI). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Sonos (NASDAQ:SONO ) and VIZIO (NYSE:VZIO ) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
85.8% of Sonos shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.2% of VIZIO shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Sonos shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 44.7% of VIZIO shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sonos presently has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 25.97%. VIZIO has a consensus target price of $10.77, suggesting a potential upside of 2.21%. Given VIZIO's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Sonos is more favorable than VIZIO.
Sonos received 252 more outperform votes than VIZIO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.47% of users gave Sonos an outperform vote while only 46.84% of users gave VIZIO an outperform vote.
VIZIO has a net margin of 1.00% compared to VIZIO's net margin of -2.82%. Sonos' return on equity of 3.91% beat VIZIO's return on equity.
VIZIO has higher revenue and earnings than Sonos. Sonos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VIZIO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sonos has a beta of 2, indicating that its stock price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VIZIO has a beta of 2.08, indicating that its stock price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sonos had 7 more articles in the media than VIZIO. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Sonos and 2 mentions for VIZIO. Sonos' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat VIZIO's score of -0.19 indicating that VIZIO is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary VIZIO beats Sonos on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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