Head-To-Head Contrast: Bed Bath & Beyond (NYSE:BBBY) versus Online Vacation Center (OTCMKTS:ONVC)

Online Vacation Center (OTCMKTS:ONVC) and Bed Bath & Beyond (NYSE:BBBY) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

76.3% of Bed Bath & Beyond shares are held by institutional investors. 71.3% of Online Vacation Center shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Bed Bath & Beyond shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Online Vacation Center and Bed Bath & Beyond”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Online Vacation Center	$20.10 million	0.93	$750,000.00	$0.10	26.00
Bed Bath & Beyond	$1.13 billion	0.54	-$258.80 million	($4.07)	-2.16

Online Vacation Center has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bed Bath & Beyond. Bed Bath & Beyond is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Online Vacation Center, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Online Vacation Center and Bed Bath & Beyond, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Online Vacation Center	0	0	0	0	0.00
Bed Bath & Beyond	3	4	2	0	1.89

Bed Bath & Beyond has a consensus price target of $8.86, suggesting a potential upside of 0.82%. Given Bed Bath & Beyond’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bed Bath & Beyond is more favorable than Online Vacation Center.

Profitability

This table compares Online Vacation Center and Bed Bath & Beyond’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Online Vacation Center	3.71%	N/A	N/A
Bed Bath & Beyond	-17.86%	-78.27%	-31.94%

Risk and Volatility

Online Vacation Center has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bed Bath & Beyond has a beta of 2.76, suggesting that its share price is 176% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Online Vacation Center beats Bed Bath & Beyond on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Online Vacation Center

Online Vacation Center Holdings Corp., through its subsidiaries, provides vacation travel and marketing services in the United States. The company offers vacation services for affluent retiree markets. It also involved in developing and selling river, ocean, and land vacation packages; publishes three travel newsletters under the Top Travel Deals, Spotlight, and TravelFlash brands; selling online of golf training aids; and operates a cruises franchise that focused on travel sales through mobile agents, as well as a website that connects travelers to purchase hotel, resort, and vacation packages. The company was founded in 1972 and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

About Bed Bath & Beyond

Beyond, Inc. operates as an online retailer of furniture and home furnishings products in the United States and Canada. The company offers furniture, bedding and bath, patio and outdoor gear, area rugs, tabletop and cookware, décor, storage and organization, small appliances, home improvement, and other products under the Bed Bath & Beyond brand. The company provides its products and services through its e-commerce platform accessible through its mobile application, which includes bedbathandbeyond.com, bedbathandbeyond.ca, and overstockgovernment.com. It also offers businesses advertising products or services on its website; Marketplace, a service that allows its partners to sell their products through third party sites; product sales to international customers using third party logistics providers; and Supplier Oasis, a singular integration point that enables partners to manage their products, inventory, and sales channels, as well as access multi-channel fulfillment services through its distribution network. The company was formerly known as Overstock.com, Inc. and changed its name to Beyond, Inc. in November 2023. Beyond, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Midvale, Utah.