VSCO vs. CATO, BBWI, HRB, PVH, GIL, LBTYK, LBTYA, MAT, BFAM, and REYN
Should you be buying Victoria's Secret & Co. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Victoria's Secret & Co. include Cato (CATO), Bath & Body Works (BBWI), H&R Block (HRB), PVH (PVH), Gildan Activewear (GIL), Liberty Global (LBTYK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Mattel (MAT), Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), and Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN).
Victoria's Secret & Co. (NYSE:VSCO) and Cato (NYSE:CATO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Victoria's Secret & Co. presently has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential downside of 21.02%. Given Victoria's Secret & Co.'s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Victoria's Secret & Co. is more favorable than Cato.
Cato received 157 more outperform votes than Victoria's Secret & Co. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.79% of users gave Cato an outperform vote while only 16.35% of users gave Victoria's Secret & Co. an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cato had 2 more articles in the media than Victoria's Secret & Co.. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Cato and 3 mentions for Victoria's Secret & Co.. Cato's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Victoria's Secret & Co.'s score of -0.07 indicating that Cato is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Victoria's Secret & Co. has a net margin of 1.77% compared to Cato's net margin of -2.51%. Victoria's Secret & Co.'s return on equity of 56.40% beat Cato's return on equity.
Victoria's Secret & Co. has higher revenue and earnings than Cato. Cato is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Victoria's Secret & Co., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
90.3% of Victoria's Secret & Co. shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.1% of Cato shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Victoria's Secret & Co. shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of Cato shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Victoria's Secret & Co. has a beta of 2.05, indicating that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cato has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Victoria's Secret & Co. beats Cato on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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