SHOO vs. WWW, RCKY, SKX, CAL, BIRK, LRN, CENT, RLX, UAA, and STRA
Should you be buying Steven Madden stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Steven Madden include Wolverine World Wide (WWW), Rocky Brands (RCKY), Skechers U.S.A. (SKX), Caleres (CAL), Birkenstock (BIRK), Stride (LRN), Central Garden & Pet (CENT), RLX Technology (RLX), Under Armour (UAA), and Strategic Education (STRA). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Wolverine World Wide (NYSE:WWW) and Steven Madden (NASDAQ:SHOO) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and media sentiment.
Wolverine World Wide pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Steven Madden pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Wolverine World Wide pays out -43.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Steven Madden pays out 34.7% 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. Wolverine World Wide is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Steven Madden has a net margin of 8.65% compared to Steven Madden's net margin of -3.59%. Wolverine World Wide's return on equity of 22.68% beat Steven Madden's return on equity.
90.3% of Wolverine World Wide shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Steven Madden shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Wolverine World Wide shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Steven Madden shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Steven Madden has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Wolverine World Wide. Wolverine World Wide is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Steven Madden, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wolverine World Wide has a beta of 1.73, suggesting that its share price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Steven Madden has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wolverine World Wide presently has a consensus target price of $11.67, suggesting a potential downside of 13.32%. Steven Madden has a consensus target price of $41.75, suggesting a potential upside of 0.22%. Given Wolverine World Wide's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Steven Madden is more favorable than Wolverine World Wide.
In the previous week, Wolverine World Wide had 4 more articles in the media than Steven Madden. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Wolverine World Wide and 4 mentions for Steven Madden. Wolverine World Wide's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Steven Madden's score of 0.09 indicating that Steven Madden is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Steven Madden received 291 more outperform votes than Wolverine World Wide when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.12% of users gave Steven Madden an outperform vote while only 50.97% of users gave Wolverine World Wide an outperform vote.
Summary
Steven Madden beats Wolverine World Wide on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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