Carter's (CRI) Competitors

Carter's (NYSE:CRI) and PVH (NYSE:PVH) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in CRI or PVH?

97.3% of PVH shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Carter's shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of PVH shares are owned by 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.

Which has more risk and volatility, CRI or PVH?

Carter's has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PVH has a beta of 2.1, meaning that its share price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to CRI or PVH?

In the previous week, PVH had 5 more articles in the media than Carter's. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for PVH and 2 mentions for Carter's. Carter's' average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat PVH's score of 0.85 indicating that Carter's is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Carter's	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
PVH	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do analysts rate CRI or PVH?

Carter's currently has a consensus target price of $67.67, indicating a potential upside of 21.62%. PVH has a consensus target price of $128.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.13%. Given Carter's' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Carter's is more favorable than PVH.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Carter's	1 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.86
PVH	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Which has higher valuation & earnings, CRI or PVH?

PVH has higher revenue and earnings than Carter's. PVH is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carter's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Carter's	$2.84B	0.71	$232.50M	$6.30	8.83
PVH	$8.77B	0.68	$663.60M	$12.28	8.75

Is CRI or PVH a better dividend stock?

Carter's pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. PVH pays an annual dividend of $0.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Carter's pays out 50.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PVH pays out 1.2% 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.

Is CRI or PVH more profitable?

PVH has a net margin of 8.13% compared to Carter's' net margin of 8.11%. Carter's' return on equity of 27.15% beat PVH's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Carter's	8.11%	27.15%	9.61%
PVH	8.13%	13.66%	6.35%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CRI or PVH?

PVH received 641 more outperform votes than Carter's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.30% of users gave PVH an outperform vote while only 59.49% of users gave Carter's an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Carter's	Outperform Votes 395 59.49%	Underperform Votes 269 40.51%
PVH	Outperform Votes 1036 71.30%	Underperform Votes 417 28.70%

Summary

PVH beats Carter's on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.