W vs. CHWY, NSIT, CNXN, RVLV, JMIA, MYTE, QRTEA, HNST, LVLU, and LGCB
Should you be buying Wayfair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wayfair include Chewy (CHWY), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), PC Connection (CNXN), Revolve Group (RVLV), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), Qurate Retail (QRTEA), Honest (HNST), Lulu's Fashion Lounge (LVLU), and Linkage Global (LGCB). These companies are all part of the "catalog & mail-order houses" industry.
Wayfair (NYSE:W) and Chewy (NYSE:CHWY) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
Chewy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Wayfair. Wayfair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chewy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.7% of Wayfair shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of Chewy shares are held by institutional investors. 26.8% of Wayfair shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Chewy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Chewy had 49 more articles in the media than Wayfair. MarketBeat recorded 60 mentions for Chewy and 11 mentions for Wayfair. Wayfair's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Chewy's score of 0.69 indicating that Wayfair is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wayfair has a beta of 3.32, suggesting that its share price is 232% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chewy has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chewy has a net margin of 0.73% compared to Wayfair's net margin of -5.28%. Chewy's return on equity of 16.62% beat Wayfair's return on equity.
Wayfair received 560 more outperform votes than Chewy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.00% of users gave Wayfair an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave Chewy an outperform vote.
Wayfair presently has a consensus target price of $77.83, indicating a potential upside of 30.82%. Chewy has a consensus target price of $26.21, indicating a potential upside of 23.59%. Given Wayfair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Wayfair is more favorable than Chewy.
Summary
Wayfair beats Chewy on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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