BKE vs. AEO, URBN, FL, CAL, GES, SCVL, DBI, ZUMZ, GCO, and CTRN
Should you be buying Buckle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Buckle include American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Urban Outfitters (URBN), Foot Locker (FL), Caleres (CAL), Guess? (GES), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Designer Brands (DBI), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Genesco (GCO), and Citi Trends (CTRN). These companies are all part of the "apparel retail" industry.
American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE:AEO) and Buckle (NYSE:BKE) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
American Eagle Outfitters received 768 more outperform votes than Buckle when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.27% of users gave American Eagle Outfitters an outperform vote while only 57.23% of users gave Buckle an outperform vote.
In the previous week, American Eagle Outfitters had 20 more articles in the media than Buckle. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for American Eagle Outfitters and 11 mentions for Buckle. Buckle's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat American Eagle Outfitters' score of 0.23 indicating that American Eagle Outfitters is being referred to more favorably in the media.
American Eagle Outfitters currently has a consensus price target of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.79%. Buckle has a consensus price target of $32.00, suggesting a potential downside of 16.97%. Given Buckle's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe American Eagle Outfitters is more favorable than Buckle.
American Eagle Outfitters pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Buckle pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. American Eagle Outfitters pays out 45.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Buckle pays out 33.0% 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. American Eagle Outfitters has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Buckle has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Buckle is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Buckle has lower revenue, but higher earnings than American Eagle Outfitters. Buckle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Eagle Outfitters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Eagle Outfitters has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Buckle has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
97.3% of American Eagle Outfitters shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of Buckle shares are held by institutional investors. 7.3% of American Eagle Outfitters shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 39.8% of Buckle shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Buckle has a net margin of 17.07% compared to Buckle's net margin of 4.12%. American Eagle Outfitters' return on equity of 48.21% beat Buckle's return on equity.
Summary
American Eagle Outfitters beats Buckle on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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