CROX vs. DECK, SKX, SHOO, WWW, NKE, ONON, LULU, EA, TCOM, and LVS
Should you be buying Crocs stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crocs include Deckers Outdoor (DECK), Skechers U.S.A. (SKX), Steven Madden (SHOO), Wolverine World Wide (WWW), NIKE (NKE), ON (ONON), Lululemon Athletica (LULU), Electronic Arts (EA), Trip.com Group (TCOM), and Las Vegas Sands (LVS).
Deckers Outdoor (NYSE:DECK) and Crocs (NASDAQ:CROX) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
Crocs has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Deckers Outdoor. Crocs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Deckers Outdoor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Deckers Outdoor presently has a consensus price target of $1,018.44, suggesting a potential downside of 5.66%. Crocs has a consensus price target of $151.75, suggesting a potential downside of 2.04%. Given Deckers Outdoor's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Crocs is more favorable than Deckers Outdoor.
Crocs has a net margin of 19.80% compared to Crocs' net margin of 17.69%. Deckers Outdoor's return on equity of 56.33% beat Crocs' return on equity.
Deckers Outdoor received 643 more outperform votes than Crocs when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.46% of users gave Deckers Outdoor an outperform vote while only 59.51% of users gave Crocs an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Deckers Outdoor had 82 more articles in the media than Crocs. MarketBeat recorded 102 mentions for Deckers Outdoor and 20 mentions for Crocs. Deckers Outdoor's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Crocs' score of 0.57 indicating that Crocs is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Deckers Outdoor has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crocs has a beta of 2.03, suggesting that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500.
97.8% of Deckers Outdoor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.4% of Crocs shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Deckers Outdoor shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Crocs shares are held by 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.
Summary
Deckers Outdoor beats Crocs on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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