COLM vs. TPR, RL, VFC, PVH, HBI, CRI, GIII, OXM, MOV, and FOSL
Should you be buying Columbia Sportswear stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Columbia Sportswear include Tapestry (TPR), Ralph Lauren (RL), VF (VFC), PVH (PVH), Hanesbrands (HBI), Carter's (CRI), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), Oxford Industries (OXM), Movado Group (MOV), and Fossil Group (FOSL). These companies are all part of the "apparel accessories & luxury goods" industry.
Columbia Sportswear vs.
Columbia Sportswear (NASDAQ:COLM) and Tapestry (NYSE:TPR) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
Columbia Sportswear pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Tapestry pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Columbia Sportswear pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tapestry pays out 40.6% 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.
Tapestry has a net margin of 11.74% compared to Columbia Sportswear's net margin of 6.63%. Tapestry's return on equity of 44.00% beat Columbia Sportswear's return on equity.
47.8% of Columbia Sportswear shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Tapestry shares are held by institutional investors. 44.7% of Columbia Sportswear shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Tapestry shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Tapestry received 1123 more outperform votes than Columbia Sportswear when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.01% of users gave Tapestry an outperform vote while only 56.94% of users gave Columbia Sportswear an outperform vote.
Columbia Sportswear presently has a consensus price target of $88.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.52%. Tapestry has a consensus price target of $78.53, indicating a potential upside of 5.12%. Given Columbia Sportswear's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Columbia Sportswear is more favorable than Tapestry.
Columbia Sportswear has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tapestry has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tapestry has higher revenue and earnings than Columbia Sportswear. Columbia Sportswear is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tapestry, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Tapestry had 12 more articles in the media than Columbia Sportswear. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Tapestry and 7 mentions for Columbia Sportswear. Columbia Sportswear's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Tapestry's score of 1.18 indicating that Columbia Sportswear is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Tapestry beats Columbia Sportswear on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:COLM) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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