QRTEA vs. LITB, BYON, JMIA, HEPS, DDL, MYTE, HNST, SFIX, TDUP, and DIBS
Should you be buying Qurate Retail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Qurate Retail include LightInTheBox (LITB), Beyond (BYON), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), MYT Netherlands Parent B.V. (MYTE), Honest (HNST), Stitch Fix (SFIX), ThredUp (TDUP), and 1stdibs.Com (DIBS).
LightInTheBox (NYSE:LITB) and Qurate Retail (NASDAQ:QRTEA) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, LightInTheBox had 7 more articles in the media than Qurate Retail. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for LightInTheBox and 4 mentions for Qurate Retail. LightInTheBox's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Qurate Retail's score of 0.12 indicating that Qurate Retail is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Qurate Retail received 622 more outperform votes than LightInTheBox when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.23% of users gave Qurate Retail an outperform vote while only 52.29% of users gave LightInTheBox an outperform vote.
LightInTheBox has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Qurate Retail. LightInTheBox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Qurate Retail, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Qurate Retail has a consensus price target of $1.10, indicating a potential upside of 54.58%. Given LightInTheBox's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Qurate Retail is more favorable than LightInTheBox.
56.8% of LightInTheBox shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.1% of Qurate Retail shares are owned by institutional investors. 62.2% of LightInTheBox shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Qurate Retail shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
LightInTheBox has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Qurate Retail has a beta of 2.75, meaning that its share price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Qurate Retail has a net margin of -1.56% compared to Qurate Retail's net margin of -1.71%. LightInTheBox's return on equity of 23.19% beat Qurate Retail's return on equity.
Summary
Qurate Retail beats LightInTheBox on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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