LCUT vs. SCX, AM, CIX, EML, ACU, RECT, TBLT, SNA, SWK, and SSD
Should you be buying Lifetime Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lifetime Brands include L.S. Starrett (SCX), Antero Midstream (AM), CompX International (CIX), Eastern (EML), Acme United (ACU), Rectitude (RECT), ToughBuilt Industries (TBLT), Snap-on (SNA), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), and Simpson Manufacturing (SSD).
Lifetime Brands vs.
Lifetime Brands (NASDAQ:LCUT) and L.S. Starrett (NYSE:SCX) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Lifetime Brands currently has a consensus target price of $11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 108.71%. Given Lifetime Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lifetime Brands is more favorable than L.S. Starrett.
40.6% of Lifetime Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.4% of L.S. Starrett shares are held by institutional investors. 43.2% of Lifetime Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of L.S. Starrett shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lifetime Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. L.S. Starrett pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Lifetime Brands pays out -17.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. L.S. Starrett pays out 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Lifetime Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
L.S. Starrett has a net margin of 5.02% compared to Lifetime Brands' net margin of -3.19%. Lifetime Brands' return on equity of 3.13% beat L.S. Starrett's return on equity.
Lifetime Brands received 31 more outperform votes than L.S. Starrett when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.79% of users gave L.S. Starrett an outperform vote while only 65.92% of users gave Lifetime Brands an outperform vote.
Lifetime Brands has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, L.S. Starrett has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lifetime Brands had 2 more articles in the media than L.S. Starrett. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Lifetime Brands and 0 mentions for L.S. Starrett. L.S. Starrett's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Lifetime Brands' score of -0.75 indicating that L.S. Starrett is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
L.S. Starrett has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lifetime Brands. Lifetime Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than L.S. Starrett, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lifetime Brands beats L.S. Starrett on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LCUT) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
