RH vs. WSM, HVT, AAN, KIRK, ARHS, LOVE, MKC, CELH, HRL, and CLX
Should you be buying RH stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RH include Williams-Sonoma (WSM), Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT), Aaron's (AAN), Kirkland's (KIRK), Arhaus (ARHS), Lovesac (LOVE), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Celsius (CELH), Hormel Foods (HRL), and Clorox (CLX).
RH (NYSE:RH) and Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:WSM) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
90.2% of RH shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of Williams-Sonoma shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.1% of RH shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Williams-Sonoma shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
RH has a beta of 2.54, suggesting that its share price is 154% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Williams-Sonoma has a beta of 1.72, suggesting that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Williams-Sonoma had 4 more articles in the media than RH. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Williams-Sonoma and 15 mentions for RH. RH's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Williams-Sonoma's score of 0.20 indicating that RH is being referred to more favorably in the media.
RH received 114 more outperform votes than Williams-Sonoma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.42% of users gave RH an outperform vote while only 49.18% of users gave Williams-Sonoma an outperform vote.
RH presently has a consensus target price of $332.15, suggesting a potential upside of 22.15%. Williams-Sonoma has a consensus target price of $259.94, suggesting a potential downside of 11.35%. Given RH's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe RH is more favorable than Williams-Sonoma.
Williams-Sonoma has higher revenue and earnings than RH. Williams-Sonoma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RH, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Williams-Sonoma has a net margin of 13.83% compared to RH's net margin of 4.21%. Williams-Sonoma's return on equity of 54.50% beat RH's return on equity.
Summary
RH and Williams-Sonoma tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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