EWCZ vs. XPOF, LIND, RICK, EXFO, YELP, CSV, EM, WW, PET, and MRM
Should you be buying European Wax Center stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of European Wax Center include Xponential Fitness (XPOF), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), RCI Hospitality (RICK), EXFO (EXFO), Yelp (YELP), Carriage Services (CSV), Smart Share Global (EM), WW International (WW), Wag! Group (PET), and MEDIROM Healthcare Technologies (MRM).
European Wax Center (NASDAQ:EWCZ) and Xponential Fitness (NYSE:XPOF) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
European Wax Center has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xponential Fitness has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
European Wax Center currently has a consensus price target of $16.33, suggesting a potential upside of 44.29%. Xponential Fitness has a consensus price target of $21.50, suggesting a potential upside of 137.31%. Given Xponential Fitness' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Xponential Fitness is more favorable than European Wax Center.
Xponential Fitness received 6 more outperform votes than European Wax Center when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.71% of users gave Xponential Fitness an outperform vote while only 54.10% of users gave European Wax Center an outperform vote.
82.1% of European Wax Center shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of Xponential Fitness shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of European Wax Center shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 47.8% of Xponential Fitness shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
European Wax Center has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Xponential Fitness. Xponential Fitness is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than European Wax Center, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, European Wax Center had 1 more articles in the media than Xponential Fitness. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for European Wax Center and 4 mentions for Xponential Fitness. Xponential Fitness' average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat European Wax Center's score of 0.50 indicating that Xponential Fitness is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
European Wax Center has a net margin of 5.50% compared to Xponential Fitness' net margin of 1.90%. European Wax Center's return on equity of 11.01% beat Xponential Fitness' return on equity.
Summary
European Wax Center beats Xponential Fitness on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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