VSCO vs. GES, SPHR, CAL, LZB, MCRI, OSW, GIII, PLYA, AMWD, and PTON
Should you be buying Victoria's Secret & Co. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Victoria's Secret & Co. include Guess? (GES), Sphere Entertainment (SPHR), Caleres (CAL), La-Z-Boy (LZB), Monarch Casino & Resort (MCRI), OneSpaWorld (OSW), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), Playa Hotels & Resorts (PLYA), American Woodmark (AMWD), and Peloton Interactive (PTON). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Victoria's Secret & Co. (NYSE:VSCO) and Guess? (NYSE:GES) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Guess? has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Victoria's Secret & Co.. Guess? is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Victoria's Secret & Co., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Victoria's Secret & Co. had 9 more articles in the media than Guess?. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Victoria's Secret & Co. and 3 mentions for Guess?. Guess?'s average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Victoria's Secret & Co.'s score of 0.30 indicating that Guess? is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Victoria's Secret & Co. presently has a consensus price target of $18.00, indicating a potential downside of 18.77%. Guess? has a consensus price target of $32.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.95%. Given Guess?'s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Guess? is more favorable than Victoria's Secret & Co..
Guess? has a net margin of 7.14% compared to Victoria's Secret & Co.'s net margin of 1.77%. Victoria's Secret & Co.'s return on equity of 56.40% beat Guess?'s return on equity.
Guess? received 461 more outperform votes than Victoria's Secret & Co. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.38% of users gave Guess? an outperform vote while only 16.35% of users gave Victoria's Secret & Co. an outperform vote.
Victoria's Secret & Co. has a beta of 2.05, suggesting that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guess? has a beta of 1.98, suggesting that its share price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.
90.3% of Victoria's Secret & Co. shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of Guess? shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Victoria's Secret & Co. shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.3% of Guess? shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Guess? beats Victoria's Secret & Co. on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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