LESL vs. SBH, WOOF, FLWS, RERE, TITN, SGU, NEGG, BARK, HITI, and RENT
Should you be buying Leslie's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leslie's include Sally Beauty (SBH), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), ATRenew (RERE), Titan Machinery (TITN), Star Group (SGU), Newegg Commerce (NEGG), BARK (BARK), High Tide (HITI), and Rent the Runway (RENT). These companies are all part of the "retail stores, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Leslie's (NASDAQ:LESL) and Sally Beauty (NYSE:SBH) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
Leslie's presently has a consensus target price of $6.26, suggesting a potential upside of 9.36%. Sally Beauty has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.48%. Given Leslie's' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Leslie's is more favorable than Sally Beauty.
Sally Beauty has a net margin of 4.36% compared to Leslie's' net margin of 1.06%. Sally Beauty's return on equity of 34.23% beat Leslie's' return on equity.
Leslie's has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sally Beauty has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Leslie's had 9 more articles in the media than Sally Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Leslie's and 2 mentions for Sally Beauty. Sally Beauty's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Leslie's' score of 0.29 indicating that Sally Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sally Beauty received 387 more outperform votes than Leslie's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.63% of users gave Sally Beauty an outperform vote while only 40.57% of users gave Leslie's an outperform vote.
Sally Beauty has higher revenue and earnings than Leslie's. Sally Beauty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Leslie's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sally Beauty beats Leslie's on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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