BGFV vs. BNED, SPWH, FL, TSCO, DKS, ULTA, FIVE, SIG, ODP, and WINA
Should you be buying Big 5 Sporting Goods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Big 5 Sporting Goods include Barnes & Noble Education (BNED), Sportsman's Warehouse (SPWH), Foot Locker (FL), Tractor Supply (TSCO), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), Five Below (FIVE), Signet Jewelers (SIG), ODP (ODP), and Winmark (WINA).
Barnes & Noble Education (NYSE:BNED) and Big 5 Sporting Goods (NASDAQ:BGFV) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Big 5 Sporting Goods received 115 more outperform votes than Barnes & Noble Education when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.85% of users gave Big 5 Sporting Goods an outperform vote while only 55.58% of users gave Barnes & Noble Education an outperform vote.
Big 5 Sporting Goods has a net margin of -1.82% compared to Big 5 Sporting Goods' net margin of -5.22%. Barnes & Noble Education's return on equity of -6.26% beat Big 5 Sporting Goods' return on equity.
Barnes & Noble Education has a beta of 2.01, indicating that its stock price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Big 5 Sporting Goods has a beta of 2.37, indicating that its stock price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Barnes & Noble Education currently has a consensus target price of $2.63, suggesting a potential upside of 483.33%. Big 5 Sporting Goods has a consensus target price of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 173.78%. Given Big 5 Sporting Goods' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Barnes & Noble Education is more favorable than Big 5 Sporting Goods.
In the previous week, Big 5 Sporting Goods had 1 more articles in the media than Barnes & Noble Education. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Big 5 Sporting Goods and 3 mentions for Barnes & Noble Education. Barnes & Noble Education's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Big 5 Sporting Goods' score of 0.24 indicating that Big 5 Sporting Goods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
38.5% of Barnes & Noble Education shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.0% of Big 5 Sporting Goods shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Barnes & Noble Education shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of Big 5 Sporting Goods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Big 5 Sporting Goods has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Barnes & Noble Education. Big 5 Sporting Goods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barnes & Noble Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Big 5 Sporting Goods beats Barnes & Noble Education on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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