WSM vs. RH, HVT, AAN, KIRK, TTSH, TCS, TGT, CVS, ORLY, and AZO
Should you be buying Williams-Sonoma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Williams-Sonoma include RH (RH), Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT), Aaron's (AAN), Kirkland's (KIRK), Tile Shop (TTSH), The Container Store Group (TCS), Target (TGT), CVS Health (CVS), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), and AutoZone (AZO).
RH (NYSE:RH) and Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:WSM) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Williams-Sonoma shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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 currently has a consensus price target of $332.15, suggesting a potential upside of 22.15%. Williams-Sonoma has a consensus price target of $259.94, suggesting a potential downside of 11.35%. Given Williams-Sonoma's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe RH is more favorable than Williams-Sonoma.
RH has a beta of 2.54, indicating that its share price is 154% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Williams-Sonoma has a beta of 1.72, indicating that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 Williams-Sonoma's net margin of 4.21%. RH's return on equity of 54.50% beat Williams-Sonoma's return on equity.
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. Williams-Sonoma's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat RH's score of 0.20 indicating that RH is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
RH and Williams-Sonoma tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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