BOOT vs. FL, SCVL, DBI, GCO, BURL, CASY, TXRH, WING, KMX, and PFGC
Should you be buying Boot Barn stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Boot Barn include Foot Locker (FL), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Designer Brands (DBI), Genesco (GCO), Burlington Stores (BURL), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Wingstop (WING), CarMax (KMX), and Performance Food Group (PFGC). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Foot Locker (NYSE:FL) and Boot Barn (NYSE:BOOT) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Foot Locker has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boot Barn has a beta of 2.15, indicating that its stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Boot Barn has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Foot Locker. Foot Locker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Boot Barn, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Foot Locker received 963 more outperform votes than Boot Barn when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.80% of users gave Foot Locker an outperform vote while only 62.93% of users gave Boot Barn an outperform vote.
Foot Locker currently has a consensus price target of $24.20, indicating a potential downside of 6.46%. Boot Barn has a consensus price target of $110.45, indicating a potential downside of 3.21%. Given Foot Locker's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Boot Barn is more favorable than Foot Locker.
Boot Barn has a net margin of 8.82% compared to Boot Barn's net margin of -4.04%. Foot Locker's return on equity of 16.84% beat Boot Barn's return on equity.
In the previous week, Foot Locker had 18 more articles in the media than Boot Barn. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Foot Locker and 13 mentions for Boot Barn. Foot Locker's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Boot Barn's score of 0.31 indicating that Boot Barn is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Boot Barn beats Foot Locker on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BOOT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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