LITB vs. HNST, SFIX, TDUP, DIBS, BZUN, AKA, VGII, LVLU, GROV, and LGCB
Should you be buying LightInTheBox stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LightInTheBox include Honest (HNST), Stitch Fix (SFIX), ThredUp (TDUP), 1stdibs.Com (DIBS), Baozun (BZUN), a.k.a. Brands (AKA), Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II (VGII), Lulu's Fashion Lounge (LVLU), Grove Collaborative (GROV), and Linkage Global (LGCB).
LightInTheBox (NYSE:LITB) and Honest (NASDAQ:HNST) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
LightInTheBox has a net margin of -1.71% compared to Honest's net margin of -6.27%. LightInTheBox's return on equity of 0.00% beat Honest's return on equity.
In the previous week, LightInTheBox had 9 more articles in the media than Honest. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for LightInTheBox and 3 mentions for Honest. Honest's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat LightInTheBox's score of 0.12 indicating that Honest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
LightInTheBox has higher revenue and earnings than Honest. Honest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LightInTheBox, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Honest has a consensus target price of $4.55, indicating a potential upside of 69.14%. Given Honest's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Honest is more favorable than LightInTheBox.
56.8% of LightInTheBox shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of Honest shares are owned by institutional investors. 62.2% of LightInTheBox shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of Honest shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
LightInTheBox received 196 more outperform votes than Honest when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.29% of users gave LightInTheBox an outperform vote while only 35.00% of users gave Honest an outperform vote.
LightInTheBox has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Honest has a beta of 1.91, indicating that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
LightInTheBox beats Honest on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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