CLAR vs. JOUT, ESCA, DTC, FTEL, AOUT, NLS, CNXA, YYAI, TRUG, and SPGC
Should you be buying Clarus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clarus include Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), Escalade (ESCA), Solo Brands (DTC), Fitell (FTEL), American Outdoor Brands (AOUT), BowFlex (NLS), Connexa Sports Technologies (CNXA), Connexa Sports Technologies (YYAI), TruGolf (TRUG), and Sacks Parente Golf (SPGC).
Johnson Outdoors (NASDAQ:JOUT) and Clarus (NASDAQ:CLAR) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, earnings and risk.
Clarus has a net margin of 3.08% compared to Clarus' net margin of 0.82%. Johnson Outdoors' return on equity of 1.01% beat Clarus' return on equity.
64.1% of Johnson Outdoors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Clarus shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.7% of Johnson Outdoors shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.4% of Clarus shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Johnson Outdoors has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clarus has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Clarus received 51 more outperform votes than Johnson Outdoors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.48% of users gave Johnson Outdoors an outperform vote while only 64.44% of users gave Clarus an outperform vote.
Clarus has a consensus price target of $9.92, suggesting a potential upside of 41.67%. Given Johnson Outdoors' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Clarus is more favorable than Johnson Outdoors.
Johnson Outdoors pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Clarus pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Johnson Outdoors pays out 280.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Clarus pays out 38.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Johnson Outdoors has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Johnson Outdoors is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Johnson Outdoors has higher revenue and earnings than Clarus. Clarus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Johnson Outdoors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Johnson Outdoors had 3 more articles in the media than Clarus. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Johnson Outdoors and 2 mentions for Clarus. Clarus' average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Johnson Outdoors' score of 0.62 indicating that Johnson Outdoors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Johnson Outdoors beats Clarus on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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