PLCE vs. LE, DBI, ZUMZ, GCO, CTRN, TLYS, CATO, EXPR, BKE, and URBN
Should you be buying Children's Place stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Children's Place include Lands' End (LE), Designer Brands (DBI), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Genesco (GCO), Citi Trends (CTRN), Tilly's (TLYS), Cato (CATO), Express (EXPR), Buckle (BKE), and Urban Outfitters (URBN).
Lands' End (NASDAQ:LE) and Children's Place (NASDAQ:PLCE) 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 risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment and earnings.
37.5% of Lands' End shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Lands' End shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Children's Place shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Children's Place had 3 more articles in the media than Lands' End. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Children's Place and 6 mentions for Lands' End. Children's Place's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Lands' End's score of 0.63 indicating that Lands' End is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Children's Place received 385 more outperform votes than Lands' End when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.47% of users gave Children's Place an outperform vote while only 57.06% of users gave Lands' End an outperform vote.
Lands' End has a beta of 2.86, meaning that its share price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Children's Place has a beta of 2.05, meaning that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lands' End presently has a consensus price target of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 38.99%. Children's Place has a consensus price target of $15.33, indicating a potential upside of 18.96%. Given Children's Place's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lands' End is more favorable than Children's Place.
Lands' End has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Children's Place. Lands' End is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Children's Place, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lands' End has a net margin of -8.87% compared to Lands' End's net margin of -9.64%. Children's Place's return on equity of -1.70% beat Lands' End's return on equity.
Summary
Lands' End beats Children's Place on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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