CTRN vs. SCVL, GES, CAL, GCO, ZUMZ, DBI, PLCE, TLYS, CATO, and TJX
Should you be buying Citi Trends stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citi Trends include Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Guess? (GES), Caleres (CAL), Genesco (GCO), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Designer Brands (DBI), Children's Place (PLCE), Tilly's (TLYS), Cato (CATO), and TJX Companies (TJX). 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 investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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 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.
Shoe Carnival has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citi Trends has a beta of 2.27, suggesting that its share price is 127% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Citi Trends had 2 more articles in the media than Shoe Carnival. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Citi Trends and 1 mentions for Shoe Carnival. Citi Trends' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Shoe Carnival's score of -1.04 indicating that Citi Trends is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Shoe Carnival received 209 more outperform votes than Citi Trends when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.30% of users gave Shoe Carnival an outperform vote while only 54.71% of users gave Citi Trends an outperform vote.
Shoe Carnival presently has a consensus price target of $51.00, suggesting a potential upside of 131.71%. Citi Trends has a consensus price target of $33.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.77%. Given Shoe Carnival's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Shoe Carnival is more favorable than Citi Trends.
Summary
Shoe Carnival beats Citi Trends on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CTRN) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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