ANF vs. GPS, AEO, URBN, BKE, JWN, AN, NSIT, DDS, LAD, and MNSO
Should you be buying Abercrombie & Fitch stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Abercrombie & Fitch include GAP (GPS), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Urban Outfitters (URBN), Buckle (BKE), Nordstrom (JWN), AutoNation (AN), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), Dillard's (DDS), Lithia Motors (LAD), and MINISO Group (MNSO). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
GAP (NYSE:GPS) and Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
58.8% of GAP shares are held by institutional investors. 30.8% of GAP shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Abercrombie & Fitch shares are held by company 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.
Abercrombie & Fitch received 21 more outperform votes than GAP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.74% of users gave Abercrombie & Fitch an outperform vote while only 52.04% of users gave GAP an outperform vote.
Abercrombie & Fitch has a net margin of 7.67% compared to Abercrombie & Fitch's net margin of 3.37%. GAP's return on equity of 38.80% beat Abercrombie & Fitch's return on equity.
In the previous week, GAP had 13 more articles in the media than Abercrombie & Fitch. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for GAP and 9 mentions for Abercrombie & Fitch. GAP's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Abercrombie & Fitch's score of 0.30 indicating that Abercrombie & Fitch is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GAP has a beta of 2.34, indicating that its share price is 134% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Abercrombie & Fitch has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GAP has higher revenue and earnings than Abercrombie & Fitch. GAP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Abercrombie & Fitch, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GAP presently has a consensus target price of $21.15, indicating a potential downside of 2.10%. Abercrombie & Fitch has a consensus target price of $135.71, indicating a potential downside of 2.79%. Given Abercrombie & Fitch's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe GAP is more favorable than Abercrombie & Fitch.
Summary
Abercrombie & Fitch beats GAP on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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