CSV vs. EWCZ, CBUS, LMNR, SENEA, LWAY, YSG, CVGW, LND, MED, and BYND
Should you be buying Carriage Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carriage Services include European Wax Center (EWCZ), Cibus (CBUS), Limoneira (LMNR), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Lifeway Foods (LWAY), Yatsen (YSG), Calavo Growers (CVGW), BrasilAgro - Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas (LND), Medifast (MED), and Beyond Meat (BYND). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Carriage Services (NYSE:CSV) and European Wax Center (NASDAQ:EWCZ) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Carriage Services has higher revenue and earnings than European Wax Center. Carriage Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than European Wax Center, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, European Wax Center had 22 more articles in the media than Carriage Services. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for European Wax Center and 1 mentions for Carriage Services. Carriage Services' average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat European Wax Center's score of 0.11 indicating that Carriage Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
66.5% of Carriage Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.1% of European Wax Center shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.1% of Carriage Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of European Wax Center shares are owned 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.
Carriage Services presently has a consensus target price of $35.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.29%. European Wax Center has a consensus target price of $16.67, suggesting a potential upside of 56.20%. Given European Wax Center's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe European Wax Center is more favorable than Carriage Services.
Carriage Services received 265 more outperform votes than European Wax Center when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.59% of users gave Carriage Services an outperform vote while only 53.33% of users gave European Wax Center an outperform vote.
Carriage Services has a net margin of 8.08% compared to European Wax Center's net margin of 5.50%. Carriage Services' return on equity of 22.04% beat European Wax Center's return on equity.
Carriage Services has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, European Wax Center has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Carriage Services beats European Wax Center on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CSV and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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