WINA vs. EZPW, ZAGG, ATV, AEO, SIG, ODP, SBH, HIBB, HZO, and BGFV
Should you be buying Winmark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Winmark include EZCORP (EZPW), ZAGG (ZAGG), Acorn International (ATV), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Signet Jewelers (SIG), ODP (ODP), Sally Beauty (SBH), Hibbett (HIBB), MarineMax (HZO), and Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV).
EZCORP (NASDAQ:EZPW) and Winmark (NASDAQ:WINA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
EZCORP presently has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 65.53%. Given Winmark's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe EZCORP is more favorable than Winmark.
EZCORP received 181 more outperform votes than Winmark when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.97% of users gave Winmark an outperform vote while only 56.35% of users gave EZCORP an outperform vote.
Winmark has lower revenue, but higher earnings than EZCORP. EZCORP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Winmark, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, EZCORP had 2 more articles in the media than Winmark. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for EZCORP and 3 mentions for Winmark. EZCORP's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Winmark's score of 0.75 indicating that Winmark is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
99.8% of EZCORP shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.3% of Winmark shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of EZCORP shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.6% of Winmark shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Winmark has a net margin of 48.36% compared to Winmark's net margin of 7.05%. Winmark's return on equity of 10.55% beat EZCORP's return on equity.
EZCORP has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Winmark has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Winmark beats EZCORP on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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