UFI vs. CULP, GLAD, ACCO, EAF, MTW, HDSN, IPAX, NWPX, PKOH, and LXFR
Should you be buying Unifi stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unifi include Culp (CULP), Gladstone Capital (GLAD), ACCO Brands (ACCO), GrafTech International (EAF), Manitowoc (MTW), Hudson Technologies (HDSN), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), Park-Ohio (PKOH), and Luxfer (LXFR).
Culp (NYSE:CULP) and Unifi (NYSE:UFI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.
75.1% of Culp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.7% of Unifi shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.6% of Culp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of Unifi shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Culp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Unifi. Culp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Unifi, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Culp had 10 more articles in the media than Unifi. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Culp and 1 mentions for Unifi. Culp's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Unifi's score of 0.34 indicating that Unifi is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Culp received 29 more outperform votes than Unifi when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.69% of users gave Unifi an outperform vote while only 52.23% of users gave Culp an outperform vote.
Culp has a net margin of -5.75% compared to Culp's net margin of -10.19%. Culp's return on equity of -15.15% beat Unifi's return on equity.
Culp has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unifi has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Culp beats Unifi on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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