UA vs. RL, BJ, SRAD, SKX, SN, SIRI, CHDN, BIRK, CROX, and LNW
Should you be buying Under Armour stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Under Armour include Ralph Lauren (RL), BJ's Wholesale Club (BJ), Sportradar Group (SRAD), Skechers U.S.A. (SKX), SharkNinja (SN), Sirius XM (SIRI), Churchill Downs (CHDN), Birkenstock (BIRK), Crocs (CROX), and Light & Wonder (LNW). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Ralph Lauren (NYSE:RL) and Under Armour (NYSE:UA) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking and dividends.
Ralph Lauren received 408 more outperform votes than Under Armour when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.04% of users gave Ralph Lauren an outperform vote while only 61.45% of users gave Under Armour an outperform vote.
Ralph Lauren has higher revenue and earnings than Under Armour. Under Armour 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 has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Under Armour has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ralph Lauren presently has a consensus target price of $170.50, suggesting a potential downside of 8.76%. Given Under Armour's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Ralph Lauren is more favorable than Under Armour.
67.9% of Ralph Lauren shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.4% of Under Armour shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.1% of Ralph Lauren shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.6% of Under Armour shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ralph Lauren has a net margin of 9.75% compared to Ralph Lauren's net margin of 4.19%. Under Armour's return on equity of 27.90% beat Ralph Lauren's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ralph Lauren had 24 more articles in the media than Under Armour. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Ralph Lauren and 2 mentions for Under Armour. Ralph Lauren's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Under Armour's score of 0.37 indicating that Under Armour is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ralph Lauren beats Under Armour on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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