AOUT vs. ESCA, CLAR, JOUT, UONE, GAIA, YQ, IH, GNSS, PET, and CNTY
Should you be buying American Outdoor Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Outdoor Brands include Escalade (ESCA), Clarus (CLAR), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), Urban One (UONE), Gaia (GAIA), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), iHuman (IH), Genasys (GNSS), Wag! Group (PET), and Century Casinos (CNTY). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Escalade (NASDAQ:ESCA) and American Outdoor Brands (NASDAQ:AOUT) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Escalade has a net margin of 4.76% compared to Escalade's net margin of -5.47%. American Outdoor Brands' return on equity of 7.74% beat Escalade's return on equity.
In the previous week, Escalade had 11 more articles in the media than American Outdoor Brands. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Escalade and 3 mentions for American Outdoor Brands. Escalade's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat American Outdoor Brands' score of -0.16 indicating that American Outdoor Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Escalade received 207 more outperform votes than American Outdoor Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.75% of users gave Escalade an outperform vote while only 57.69% of users gave American Outdoor Brands an outperform vote.
Escalade has higher revenue and earnings than American Outdoor Brands. American Outdoor Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Escalade, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
65.2% of Escalade shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of American Outdoor Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.8% of Escalade shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of American Outdoor Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
American Outdoor Brands has a consensus target price of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 62.09%. Given Escalade's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe American Outdoor Brands is more favorable than Escalade.
Escalade has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Outdoor Brands has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Escalade beats American Outdoor Brands on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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