Contrasting QVC Group (QVCGA) and Its Rivals

QVC Group (NASDAQ:QVCGA) is one of 142 publicly-traded companies in the “Broadline Retail” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare QVC Group to related businesses based on the strength of its risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares QVC Group and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
QVC Group	$9.23 billion	-$2.44 billion	-0.00
QVC Group Competitors	$24.84 billion	$1.71 billion	14.49

QVC Group’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than QVC Group. QVC Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Risk and Volatility

QVC Group has a beta of 2.85, meaning that its stock price is 185% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QVC Group’s peers have a beta of 1.74, meaning that their average stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for QVC Group and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
QVC Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
QVC Group Competitors	1411	5418	10907	311	2.56

As a group, “Broadline Retail” companies have a potential upside of 18.76%. Given QVC Group’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe QVC Group has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares QVC Group and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
QVC Group	-26.42%	-1.02%	0.32%
QVC Group Competitors	-2.82%	-22.71%	-2.10%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

64.1% of QVC Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.5% of shares of all “Broadline Retail” companies are held by institutional investors. 12.3% of QVC Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.6% of shares of all “Broadline Retail” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

QVC Group peers beat QVC Group on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

About QVC Group

QVC Group, Inc. is a global video-commerce and retail company that connects consumers with products through television, digital streaming, websites, mobile applications and social media. The company is best known for presenting merchandise through hosted programming that combines product demonstrations, entertainment and direct purchasing. QVC Group’s portfolio includes QVC and HSN, which offer a broad selection of products across categories such as apparel, beauty, jewelry, electronics, home goods, kitchenware and lifestyle merchandise.