EM vs. EWCZ, CSV, WW, PET, MRM, DLPN, VERB, RGS, XWEL, and SCI
Should you be buying Smart Share Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smart Share Global include European Wax Center (EWCZ), Carriage Services (CSV), WW International (WW), Wag! Group (PET), MEDIROM Healthcare Technologies (MRM), Dolphin Entertainment (DLPN), Verb Technology (VERB), Regis (RGS), XWELL (XWEL), and Service Co. International (SCI).
European Wax Center (NASDAQ:EWCZ) and Smart Share Global (NYSE:EM) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
European Wax Center has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smart Share Global has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Smart Share Global has higher revenue and earnings than European Wax Center. Smart Share Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than European Wax Center, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, European Wax Center had 1 more articles in the media than Smart Share Global. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for European Wax Center and 4 mentions for Smart Share Global. European Wax Center's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Smart Share Global's score of 0.68 indicating that Smart Share Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
European Wax Center received 23 more outperform votes than Smart Share Global when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Smart Share Global an outperform vote while only 53.33% of users gave European Wax Center an outperform vote.
82.1% of European Wax Center shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of Smart Share Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of European Wax Center shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.8% of Smart Share Global shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
European Wax Center has a net margin of 5.50% compared to European Wax Center's net margin of 2.93%. Smart Share Global's return on equity of 11.01% beat European Wax Center's return on equity.
European Wax Center currently has a consensus target price of $16.67, suggesting a potential upside of 49.88%. Smart Share Global has a consensus target price of $1.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.66%. Given Smart Share Global's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe European Wax Center is more favorable than Smart Share Global.
Summary
European Wax Center beats Smart Share Global on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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