KTB vs. RL, PVH, VFC, OXM, CTAS, WMG, FOXA, NWS, FWONA, and NWSA
Should you be buying Kontoor Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kontoor Brands include Ralph Lauren (RL), PVH (PVH), V.F. (VFC), Oxford Industries (OXM), Cintas (CTAS), Warner Music Group (WMG), FOX (FOXA), News (NWS), Formula One Group (FWONA), and News (NWSA).
Kontoor Brands (NYSE:KTB) and Ralph Lauren (NYSE:RL) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Kontoor Brands has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ralph Lauren has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kontoor Brands currently has a consensus target price of $75.20, indicating a potential upside of 2.54%. Ralph Lauren has a consensus target price of $170.50, indicating a potential downside of 8.76%. Given Kontoor Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Kontoor Brands is more favorable than Ralph Lauren.
Kontoor Brands pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Ralph Lauren pays an annual dividend of $3.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Kontoor Brands pays out 50.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ralph Lauren pays out 34.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
93.1% of Kontoor Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.9% of Ralph Lauren shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Kontoor Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 39.1% of Ralph Lauren shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ralph Lauren has higher revenue and earnings than Kontoor Brands. Kontoor Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ralph Lauren, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ralph Lauren received 694 more outperform votes than Kontoor Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.04% of users gave Ralph Lauren an outperform vote while only 54.48% of users gave Kontoor Brands an outperform vote.
Ralph Lauren has a net margin of 9.75% compared to Kontoor Brands' net margin of 8.72%. Kontoor Brands' return on equity of 71.45% beat Ralph Lauren's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ralph Lauren had 18 more articles in the media than Kontoor Brands. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Ralph Lauren and 8 mentions for Kontoor Brands. Kontoor Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Ralph Lauren's score of 0.37 indicating that Kontoor Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ralph Lauren beats Kontoor Brands on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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