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Alliance Entertainment (AENT) Competitors

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AENT vs. GIC, CAPL, VSTS, ITRN, RYI, STKL, MGPI, AMRK, ASPN, and CLMB

Should you be buying Alliance Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliance Entertainment include Global Industrial (GIC), CrossAmerica Partners (CAPL), Vestis (VSTS), Ituran Location and Control (ITRN), Ryerson (RYI), SunOpta (STKL), MGP Ingredients (MGPI), A-Mark Precious Metals (AMRK), Aspen Aerogels (ASPN), and Climb Global Solutions (CLMB). These companies are all part of the "wholesale" industry.

Alliance Entertainment vs. Its Competitors

Global Industrial (NYSE:GIC) and Alliance Entertainment (NASDAQ:AENT) are both small-cap wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.

Global Industrial has higher revenue and earnings than Alliance Entertainment. Global Industrial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alliance Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Global Industrial$1.32B0.79$61M$1.5817.19
Alliance Entertainment$1.07B0.25$4.58M$0.2422.13

Alliance Entertainment has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 88.32%. Given Alliance Entertainment's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alliance Entertainment is more favorable than Global Industrial.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Global Industrial
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Alliance Entertainment
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Global Industrial and Global Industrial both had 1 articles in the media. Alliance Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Global Industrial's score of 0.00 indicating that Alliance Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Global Industrial Neutral
Alliance Entertainment Positive

Global Industrial has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alliance Entertainment has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Global Industrial has a net margin of 4.67% compared to Alliance Entertainment's net margin of 1.10%. Global Industrial's return on equity of 21.85% beat Alliance Entertainment's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Global Industrial4.67% 21.85% 11.47%
Alliance Entertainment 1.10%15.59%3.86%

31.2% of Global Industrial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.3% of Alliance Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 65.3% of Global Industrial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 81.9% of Alliance 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.

Summary

Global Industrial beats Alliance Entertainment on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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AENT vs. The Competition

MetricAlliance EntertainmentMEDIA CONGLOM IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$272.62M$16.77B$8.33B$9.30B
Dividend YieldN/A2.53%3.14%4.03%
P/E Ratio22.1340.2220.9019.58
Price / Sales0.252.903.3393.43
Price / Cash24.0817.3816.7557.93
Price / Book3.091.994.715.54
Net Income$4.58M-$285.69M$214.79M$257.73M
7 Day Performance-4.50%2.75%-1.04%-0.08%
1 Month Performance67.51%12.08%36.60%8.09%
1 Year Performance94.51%41.71%12.08%13.02%

Alliance Entertainment Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AENT
Alliance Entertainment
3.4232 of 5 stars
$5.31
-0.7%
$10.00
+88.3%
+92.4%$272.62M$1.07B22.13847Positive News
Gap Up
GIC
Global Industrial
2.9573 of 5 stars
$27.54
-0.6%
N/A-17.6%$1.06B$1.31B17.431,845
CAPL
CrossAmerica Partners
1.6944 of 5 stars
$20.70
-0.1%
N/A+4.9%$788.44M$4.02B25.872,220News Coverage
VSTS
Vestis
3.6192 of 5 stars
$5.95
-3.2%
$9.25
+55.6%
-51.6%$783.45M$2.73B-33.0310,800Trending News
Analyst Forecast
ITRN
Ituran Location and Control
3.9947 of 5 stars
$39.32
-0.1%
$50.00
+27.2%
+53.4%$782.23M$337.69M14.142,892
RYI
Ryerson
2.6806 of 5 stars
$23.39
-1.6%
$25.00
+6.9%
+3.5%$753.09M$4.60B-106.314,200
STKL
SunOpta
3.8033 of 5 stars
$6.14
-1.9%
$9.50
+54.7%
+14.3%$721.71M$740.93M-47.231,248News Coverage
Positive News
MGPI
MGP Ingredients
3.9907 of 5 stars
$29.91
-3.7%
$50.33
+68.3%
-61.8%$636.19M$703.62M66.47690Positive News
AMRK
A-Mark Precious Metals
4.7756 of 5 stars
$23.58
-2.4%
$33.00
+39.9%
-37.9%$580.54M$9.70B15.93380Positive News
ASPN
Aspen Aerogels
3.9024 of 5 stars
$6.58
-3.7%
$18.44
+180.5%
-76.1%$539.87M$452.70M-1.88420News Coverage
Positive News
CLMB
Climb Global Solutions
4.0523 of 5 stars
$109.28
+1.0%
$136.00
+24.5%
+67.3%$502.91M$511.23M25.59270Positive News
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:AENT) was last updated on 7/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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