Head to Head Comparison: Lovesac (NASDAQ:LOVE) and Arçelik Anonim Sirketi (OTCMKTS:ACKAY)

Lovesac (NASDAQ:LOVE) and Arçelik Anonim Sirketi (OTCMKTS:ACKAY) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

91.3% of Lovesac shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Arçelik Anonim Sirketi shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.1% of Lovesac shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Lovesac and Arçelik Anonim Sirketi, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Lovesac	0	0	4	0	3.00
Arçelik Anonim Sirketi	0	0	1	0	3.00

Lovesac presently has a consensus price target of $35.25, suggesting a potential upside of 33.27%. Given Lovesac’s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Lovesac is more favorable than Arçelik Anonim Sirketi.

Profitability

This table compares Lovesac and Arçelik Anonim Sirketi’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Lovesac	3.39%	12.19%	5.36%
Arçelik Anonim Sirketi	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Lovesac and Arçelik Anonim Sirketi’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Lovesac	$700.27 million	0.59	$23.86 million	$1.40	18.89
Arçelik Anonim Sirketi	N/A	N/A	N/A	$4.47	5.24

Lovesac has higher revenue and earnings than Arçelik Anonim Sirketi. Arçelik Anonim Sirketi is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lovesac, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Lovesac beats Arçelik Anonim Sirketi on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Lovesac

The Lovesac Company designs, manufactures, and sells furniture. It offers sactionals, such as seats and sides; sacs, including foam beanbag chairs; and other products comprising drink holders, footsac blankets, decorative pillows, fitted seat tables, and ottomans. The company markets its products primarily through www.lovesac.com website, as well as showrooms at top tier malls, lifestyle centers, mobile concierges, kiosks, and street locations in 41 states in the United States; and in store pop-up- shops and shop-in-shops, and barter inventory transactions. The Lovesac Company was founded in 1995 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut.

About Arçelik Anonim Sirketi

Arçelik Anonim Sirketi, together with its subsidiaries, produces, markets, sells, after sales services, imports, and exports consumer durable goods and electronics in Turkey, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Africa, and internationally. It operates through White Goods, Consumer Electronics, and Other segments. It offers refrigerators, automatic and semi-automatic top-loading washing machines, chest and upright deep freezers, split air conditioners, microwave ovens, water coolers, dryers, dish washers, ovens, cookers, home appliances, furniture and kitchen gadgets, hoods, built-in cookers, laundry dryers, water dispensers, and coffee machines. The company also provides furnaces, aspirators, mini-midi ovens, warming drawers, water purifiers, combi boilers, kettles, room heaters, and fans; small home appliances comprising brooms, cooking utensils, personal care and hygiene products, and irons; consumer electronics, such as smart phones, laptops and tablets, POS cash registers, Hi-fi systems, portable sound systems, and 3D printers; and hermetic compressors and motor pumps. In addition, it offers televisions, computers, cash registers, and other electronic devices. The company provides its products under the Altus, Arctic, Blomberg, Dawlance, Arçelik, Beko, Defy, Elektrabregenz, Flavel, Grundig, Leisure, STINOL, and VoltasBeko brand names. Arçelik Anonim Sirketi was incorporated in 1955 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.