CRWS vs. CULP, SSP, JAKK, GMGI, VIRC, EVC, ESCA, KNDI, HOFT, and FLXS
Should you be buying Crown Crafts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown Crafts include Culp (CULP), E.W. Scripps (SSP), JAKKS Pacific (JAKK), Golden Matrix Group (GMGI), Virco Mfg. (VIRC), Entravision Communications (EVC), Escalade (ESCA), Kandi Technologies Group (KNDI), Hooker Furnishings (HOFT), and Flexsteel Industries (FLXS). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Culp (NYSE:CULP) and Crown Crafts (NASDAQ:CRWS) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and valuation.
Crown Crafts has a net margin of 5.44% compared to Crown Crafts' net margin of -5.75%. Culp's return on equity of 10.02% beat Crown Crafts' return on equity.
Crown Crafts has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Culp. Culp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown Crafts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Culp received 48 more outperform votes than Crown Crafts when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Crown Crafts an outperform vote while only 52.35% of users gave Culp an outperform vote.
Culp has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown Crafts has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Culp had 6 more articles in the media than Crown Crafts. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Culp and 4 mentions for Crown Crafts. Culp's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Crown Crafts' score of 0.40 indicating that Crown Crafts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
75.1% of Culp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.2% of Crown Crafts shares are held by institutional investors. 6.6% of Culp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Crown Crafts shares are held 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.
Summary
Crown Crafts beats Culp on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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