QRTEA vs. AKA, SFIX, DIBS, MYTE, DDL, HEPS, WISH, LITB, JMIA, and GCO
Should you be buying Qurate Retail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Qurate Retail include a.k.a. Brands (AKA), Stitch Fix (SFIX), 1stdibs.Com (DIBS), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), ContextLogic (WISH), LightInTheBox (LITB), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), and Genesco (GCO).
Qurate Retail (NASDAQ:QRTEA) and a.k.a. Brands (NYSE:AKA) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
64.1% of Qurate Retail shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of a.k.a. Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.2% of Qurate Retail shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of a.k.a. Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Qurate Retail presently has a consensus target price of $1.10, indicating a potential upside of 48.31%. a.k.a. Brands has a consensus target price of $14.50, indicating a potential downside of 44.59%. Given Qurate Retail's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Qurate Retail is more favorable than a.k.a. Brands.
Qurate Retail received 820 more outperform votes than a.k.a. Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.28% of users gave Qurate Retail an outperform vote while only 31.15% of users gave a.k.a. Brands an outperform vote.
Qurate Retail has a net margin of -1.56% compared to a.k.a. Brands' net margin of -18.11%. Qurate Retail's return on equity of 23.19% beat a.k.a. Brands' return on equity.
a.k.a. Brands has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Qurate Retail. a.k.a. Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Qurate Retail, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Qurate Retail has a beta of 2.75, indicating that its stock price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, a.k.a. Brands has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, a.k.a. Brands had 3 more articles in the media than Qurate Retail. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for a.k.a. Brands and 2 mentions for Qurate Retail. a.k.a. Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Qurate Retail's score of 0.00 indicating that a.k.a. Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Qurate Retail beats a.k.a. Brands on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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