LL vs. HD, LOW, JCTCF, BLDR, FND, THCH, DTC, TLYS, AKA, and STKS
Should you be buying LL Flooring stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LL Flooring include Home Depot (HD), Lowe's Companies (LOW), Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTCF), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Floor & Decor (FND), TH International (THCH), Solo Brands (DTC), Tilly's (TLYS), a.k.a. Brands (AKA), and ONE Group Hospitality (STKS).
LL Flooring (NYSE:LL) and Home Depot (NYSE:HD) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
Home Depot has higher revenue and earnings than LL Flooring. LL Flooring is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home Depot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Home Depot has a net margin of 9.79% compared to LL Flooring's net margin of -14.30%. Home Depot's return on equity of 1,056.67% beat LL Flooring's return on equity.
54.3% of LL Flooring shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Home Depot shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of LL Flooring shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Home Depot shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Home Depot received 1244 more outperform votes than LL Flooring when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.53% of users gave Home Depot an outperform vote while only 54.58% of users gave LL Flooring an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Home Depot had 22 more articles in the media than LL Flooring. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Home Depot and 3 mentions for LL Flooring. Home Depot's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat LL Flooring's score of 0.20 indicating that Home Depot is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
LL Flooring has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Home Depot has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
LL Flooring currently has a consensus price target of $2.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.46%. Home Depot has a consensus price target of $377.46, indicating a potential upside of 15.42%. Given LL Flooring's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe LL Flooring is more favorable than Home Depot.
Summary
Home Depot beats LL Flooring on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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