Qurate Retail (QRTEA) Competitors

Qurate Retail (NASDAQ:QRTEA) and Stitch Fix (NASDAQ:SFIX) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in QRTEA or SFIX?

Qurate Retail received 180 more outperform votes than Stitch Fix when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.53% of users gave Qurate Retail an outperform vote while only 57.81% of users gave Stitch Fix an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Qurate Retail	Outperform Votes 839 66.53%	Underperform Votes 422 33.47%
Stitch Fix	Outperform Votes 659 57.81%	Underperform Votes 481 42.19%

Do analysts recommend QRTEA or SFIX?

Stitch Fix has a consensus target price of $3.96, indicating a potential upside of 5.35%. Given Stitch Fix's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Stitch Fix is more favorable than Qurate Retail.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Qurate Retail	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Stitch Fix	2 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.78

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of QRTEA or SFIX?

64.1% of Qurate Retail shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of Stitch Fix shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Qurate Retail shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of Stitch Fix shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, QRTEA or SFIX?

Stitch Fix has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Qurate Retail. Stitch Fix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Qurate Retail, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Qurate Retail	$10.24B	0.01	-$145M	-$0.71	-0.47
Stitch Fix	$1.29B	0.37	-$128.84M	-$0.83	-4.53

Is QRTEA or SFIX more profitable?

Qurate Retail has a net margin of -2.71% compared to Stitch Fix's net margin of -7.71%. Qurate Retail's return on equity of 23.22% beat Stitch Fix's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Qurate Retail	-2.71%	23.22%	0.92%
Stitch Fix	-7.71%	-32.71%	-12.64%

Does the media prefer QRTEA or SFIX?

In the previous week, Stitch Fix had 23 more articles in the media than Qurate Retail. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Stitch Fix and 3 mentions for Qurate Retail. Qurate Retail's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Stitch Fix's score of 0.62 indicating that Qurate Retail is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Qurate Retail	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Stitch Fix	6 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	10 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility and risk, QRTEA or SFIX?

Qurate Retail has a beta of 2.63, meaning that its stock price is 163% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stitch Fix has a beta of 1.99, meaning that its stock price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Qurate Retail beats Stitch Fix on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.