CTRN vs. SCVL, CAL, GES, GCO, ZUMZ, DBI, PLCE, TLYS, CATO, and EXPR
Should you be buying Citi Trends stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citi Trends include Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Caleres (CAL), Guess? (GES), Genesco (GCO), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Designer Brands (DBI), Children's Place (PLCE), Tilly's (TLYS), Cato (CATO), and Express (EXPR). These companies are all part of the "apparel retail" industry.
Citi Trends vs.
Shoe Carnival (NASDAQ:SCVL) and Citi Trends (NASDAQ:CTRN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Shoe Carnival has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citi Trends has a beta of 2.27, suggesting that its stock price is 127% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Shoe Carnival received 210 more outperform votes than Citi Trends when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.30% of users gave Shoe Carnival an outperform vote while only 54.94% of users gave Citi Trends an outperform vote.
Shoe Carnival has higher revenue and earnings than Citi Trends. Citi Trends is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shoe Carnival, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
66.1% of Shoe Carnival shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.7% of Shoe Carnival shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Citi Trends shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Shoe Carnival has a net margin of 6.12% compared to Citi Trends' net margin of -3.36%. Shoe Carnival's return on equity of 12.52% beat Citi Trends' return on equity.
Shoe Carnival currently has a consensus price target of $42.00, indicating a potential upside of 40.23%. Citi Trends has a consensus price target of $27.67, indicating a potential upside of 3.62%. Given Shoe Carnival's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Shoe Carnival is more favorable than Citi Trends.
In the previous week, Citi Trends had 3 more articles in the media than Shoe Carnival. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Citi Trends and 1 mentions for Shoe Carnival. Shoe Carnival's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Citi Trends' score of 0.40 indicating that Shoe Carnival is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Shoe Carnival beats Citi Trends on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CTRN) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
