JOUT vs. CLAR, ESCA, AOUT, MCS, LIND, LINC, WOW, NRDY, ONEW, and MPX
Should you be buying Johnson Outdoors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Johnson Outdoors include Clarus (CLAR), Escalade (ESCA), American Outdoor Brands (AOUT), Marcus (MCS), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), WideOpenWest (WOW), Nerdy (NRDY), OneWater Marine (ONEW), and Marine Products (MPX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Johnson Outdoors (NASDAQ:JOUT) and Clarus (NASDAQ:CLAR) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Johnson Outdoors pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Clarus pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Johnson Outdoors pays out 280.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Clarus pays out 38.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Johnson Outdoors has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clarus has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
64.1% of Johnson Outdoors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Clarus shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.7% of Johnson Outdoors shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.4% of Clarus shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Clarus had 1 more articles in the media than Johnson Outdoors. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Clarus and 2 mentions for Johnson Outdoors. Johnson Outdoors' average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Clarus' score of 0.56 indicating that Johnson Outdoors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clarus received 51 more outperform votes than Johnson Outdoors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.48% of users gave Johnson Outdoors an outperform vote while only 64.44% of users gave Clarus an outperform vote.
Johnson Outdoors has higher revenue and earnings than Clarus. Clarus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Johnson Outdoors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Clarus has a consensus target price of $9.92, suggesting a potential upside of 43.10%. Given Clarus' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Clarus is more favorable than Johnson Outdoors.
Clarus has a net margin of 3.08% compared to Johnson Outdoors' net margin of 0.82%. Clarus' return on equity of 1.01% beat Johnson Outdoors' return on equity.
Summary
Clarus beats Johnson Outdoors on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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