W vs. NSIT, MTCH, CAVA, LEVI, GPS, TPX, FBIN, FIVE, SFM, and MNSO Should you be buying Wayfair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wayfair include Insight Enterprises (NSIT), Match Group (MTCH), CAVA Group (CAVA), Levi Strauss & Co. (LEVI), GAP (GPS), Tempur Sealy International (TPX), Fortune Brands Innovations (FBIN), Five Below (FIVE), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), and MINISO Group (MNSO). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Wayfair (NYSE:W ) and Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ:NSIT ) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
89.7% of Wayfair shares are held by institutional investors. 26.8% of Wayfair shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Insight Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Wayfair presently has a consensus target price of $77.83, suggesting a potential upside of 15.99%. Insight Enterprises has a consensus target price of $204.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.35%. Given Wayfair's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Wayfair is more favorable than Insight Enterprises.
Wayfair has a beta of 3.32, meaning that its stock price is 232% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Insight Enterprises has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Wayfair had 24 more articles in the media than Insight Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Wayfair and 18 mentions for Insight Enterprises. Insight Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Wayfair's score of 0.41 indicating that Insight Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Insight Enterprises has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Wayfair. Wayfair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Insight Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insight Enterprises has a net margin of 3.23% compared to Wayfair's net margin of -5.28%. Insight Enterprises' return on equity of 21.34% beat Wayfair's return on equity.
Wayfair received 557 more outperform votes than Insight Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.00% of users gave Wayfair an outperform vote while only 56.61% of users gave Insight Enterprises an outperform vote.
Summary Wayfair beats Insight Enterprises on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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