MTCH vs. SBH, FLWS, TITN, SGU, KIRK, PINS, APP, SNAP, ZM, and FDS
Should you be buying Match Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Match Group include Sally Beauty (SBH), 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), Titan Machinery (TITN), Star Group (SGU), Kirkland's (KIRK), Pinterest (PINS), AppLovin (APP), Snap (SNAP), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), and FactSet Research Systems (FDS).
Match Group (NASDAQ:MTCH) and Sally Beauty (NYSE:SBH) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Match Group has a net margin of 19.03% compared to Sally Beauty's net margin of 4.36%. Sally Beauty's return on equity of 34.23% beat Match Group's return on equity.
Match Group received 172 more outperform votes than Sally Beauty when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.11% of users gave Match Group an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Sally Beauty an outperform vote.
Match Group has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sally Beauty has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
94.1% of Match Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Match Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Sally Beauty shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Match Group currently has a consensus price target of $42.43, indicating a potential upside of 42.32%. Sally Beauty has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.33%. Given Match Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Match Group is more favorable than Sally Beauty.
Match Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sally Beauty. Sally Beauty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Match Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Match Group had 12 more articles in the media than Sally Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Match Group and 2 mentions for Sally Beauty. Sally Beauty's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Match Group's score of 0.57 indicating that Sally Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Match Group beats Sally Beauty on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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