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Wayfair (W) Competitors

$59.49
+0.40 (+0.68%)
(As of 05/31/2024 ET)

W vs. CHWY, NSIT, CNXN, RVLV, JMIA, MYTE, QRTEA, HNST, LVLU, and LGCB

Should you be buying Wayfair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wayfair include Chewy (CHWY), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), PC Connection (CNXN), Revolve Group (RVLV), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), Qurate Retail (QRTEA), Honest (HNST), Lulu's Fashion Lounge (LVLU), and Linkage Global (LGCB).

Wayfair vs.

Wayfair (NYSE:W) and Chewy (NYSE:CHWY) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Wayfair has a beta of 3.32, meaning that its stock price is 232% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chewy has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Chewy has a net margin of 0.73% compared to Wayfair's net margin of -5.28%. Chewy's return on equity of 18.79% beat Wayfair's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Wayfair-5.28% N/A -19.06%
Chewy 0.73%18.79%2.64%

In the previous week, Chewy had 47 more articles in the media than Wayfair. MarketBeat recorded 58 mentions for Chewy and 11 mentions for Wayfair. Wayfair's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Chewy's score of 0.69 indicating that Wayfair is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Wayfair
3 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Chewy
18 Very Positive mention(s)
8 Positive mention(s)
18 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

89.7% of Wayfair shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of Chewy shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.8% of Wayfair shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Chewy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Wayfair received 560 more outperform votes than Chewy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.00% of users gave Wayfair an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave Chewy an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
WayfairOutperform Votes
801
62.00%
Underperform Votes
491
38.00%
ChewyOutperform Votes
241
55.53%
Underperform Votes
193
44.47%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Wayfair$12.00B0.60-$738M-$5.36-11.10
Chewy$11.15B0.83$39.58M$0.18117.89

Wayfair currently has a consensus price target of $77.83, indicating a potential upside of 30.82%. Chewy has a consensus price target of $26.84, indicating a potential upside of 26.49%. Given Wayfair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Wayfair is more favorable than Chewy.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Wayfair
0 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
18 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71
Chewy
1 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.59

Summary

Wayfair beats Chewy on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding W and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

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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W vs. The Competition

MetricWayfairCatalog & mail IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.16B$62.83B$21.29B$17.89B
Dividend YieldN/A3.17%176.81%3.57%
P/E Ratio-11.1032.9428.7625.83
Price / Sales0.600.841.6310.33
Price / CashN/A26.2617.6718.87
Price / Book-2.535.094.755.91
Net Income-$738M$1.09B$746.88M$976.46M
7 Day Performance-2.79%1.88%1.32%0.60%
1 Month Performance18.60%9.09%6.77%4.90%
1 Year Performance47.58%42.52%14.46%25.27%

Wayfair Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CHWY
Chewy
3.6025 of 5 stars
$20.70
+22.4%
$26.60
+28.5%
-28.0%$9.00B$11.15B258.7818,100Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
NSIT
Insight Enterprises
2.5228 of 5 stars
$205.13
-0.2%
$204.00
-0.6%
+44.6%$6.68B$9.18B25.8014,437Insider Selling
Positive News
CNXN
PC Connection
3.3556 of 5 stars
$65.63
-2.6%
N/A+50.4%$1.73B$2.85B21.042,703Short Interest ↑
RVLV
Revolve Group
1.5471 of 5 stars
$18.92
-0.4%
$20.50
+8.4%
+25.4%$1.34B$1.07B55.651,478
JMIA
Jumia Technologies
0.2154 of 5 stars
$6.23
-0.2%
$3.60
-42.2%
+155.0%$630.10M$186.40M0.002,915Gap Down
MYTE
MYT Netherlands Parent B.V.
0.1643 of 5 stars
$5.54
+1.5%
$5.25
-5.2%
+29.4%$470.90M$805.21M-16.791,432Gap Down
QRTEA
Qurate Retail
3.9574 of 5 stars
$0.71
-1.1%
$1.10
+54.3%
-14.3%$279.28M$10.92B-1.7020,300Analyst Downgrade
Positive News
HNST
Honest
2.7905 of 5 stars
$2.79
-0.7%
$4.55
+63.1%
+83.0%$275.21M$344.36M-12.13176Short Interest ↓
Gap Down
LVLU
Lulu's Fashion Lounge
3.0506 of 5 stars
$1.84
-3.0%
$2.67
+44.6%
-26.7%$76.20M$355.17M-3.69686Positive News
Gap Up
LGCB
Linkage Global
0 of 5 stars
$2.90
+3.9%
N/AN/A$62.35MN/A0.0092Positive News

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This page (NYSE:W) was last updated on 6/1/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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