BARK vs. FLWS, RERE, TITN, NEGG, SGU, HITI, NAAS, RENT, KIRK, and YJ
Should you be buying BARK stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BARK include 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), ATRenew (RERE), Titan Machinery (TITN), Newegg Commerce (NEGG), Star Group (SGU), High Tide (HITI), NaaS Technology (NAAS), Rent the Runway (RENT), Kirkland's (KIRK), and Yunji (YJ). These companies are all part of the "retail stores, not elsewhere classified" industry.
BARK (NYSE:BARK) and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (NASDAQ:FLWS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
1-800-FLOWERS.COM received 470 more outperform votes than BARK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.81% of users gave 1-800-FLOWERS.COM an outperform vote while only 36.59% of users gave BARK an outperform vote.
BARK presently has a consensus price target of $1.60, suggesting a potential upside of 23.08%. 1-800-FLOWERS.COM has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential downside of 7.02%. Given BARK's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe BARK is more favorable than 1-800-FLOWERS.COM.
1-800-FLOWERS.COM has higher revenue and earnings than BARK. 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BARK, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BARK has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, BARK had 5 more articles in the media than 1-800-FLOWERS.COM. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for BARK and 6 mentions for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM. 1-800-FLOWERS.COM's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat BARK's score of 0.23 indicating that 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
1-800-FLOWERS.COM has a net margin of -0.42% compared to BARK's net margin of -9.36%. 1-800-FLOWERS.COM's return on equity of 3.27% beat BARK's return on equity.
28.8% of BARK shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.4% of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.4% of BARK shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 49.8% of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
1-800-FLOWERS.COM beats BARK on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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