CNXN vs. OSTK, SFIX, RUHN, QRTEA, ARW, NSIT, AGYS, SCSC, RELL, and SNX
Should you be buying PC Connection stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PC Connection include Overstock.com (OSTK), Stitch Fix (SFIX), Ruhnn (RUHN), Qurate Retail (QRTEA), Arrow Electronics (ARW), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), Agilysys (AGYS), ScanSource (SCSC), Richardson Electronics (RELL), and TD SYNNEX (SNX).
Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK) and PC Connection (NASDAQ:CNXN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and media sentiment.
Overstock.com has a beta of 3.66, suggesting that its stock price is 266% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PC Connection has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Overstock.com currently has a consensus target price of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of ∞. Given PC Connection's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Overstock.com is more favorable than PC Connection.
PC Connection has higher revenue and earnings than Overstock.com. Overstock.com is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PC Connection, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PC Connection had 2 more articles in the media than Overstock.com. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for PC Connection and 1 mentions for Overstock.com. Overstock.com's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat PC Connection's score of 0.00 indicating that PC Connection is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Overstock.com received 226 more outperform votes than PC Connection when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.46% of users gave Overstock.com an outperform vote while only 62.95% of users gave PC Connection an outperform vote.
PC Connection has a net margin of 2.98% compared to PC Connection's net margin of -10.27%. Overstock.com's return on equity of 10.10% beat PC Connection's return on equity.
71.4% of Overstock.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.9% of PC Connection shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Overstock.com shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 56.9% of PC Connection shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
PC Connection beats Overstock.com on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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