DBI vs. SCVL, GES, CAL, ZUMZ, GCO, CTRN, PLCE, CATO, TLYS, and TJX
Should you be buying Designer Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Designer Brands include Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Guess? (GES), Caleres (CAL), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Genesco (GCO), Citi Trends (CTRN), Children's Place (PLCE), Cato (CATO), Tilly's (TLYS), and TJX Companies (TJX). These companies are all part of the "apparel retail" industry.
Designer Brands vs.
Designer Brands (NYSE:DBI) and Shoe Carnival (NASDAQ:SCVL) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Designer Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Shoe Carnival pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Designer Brands pays out -64.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shoe Carnival pays out 22.4% 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. Shoe Carnival has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Designer Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Shoe Carnival has a net margin of 6.12% compared to Designer Brands' net margin of -0.07%. Shoe Carnival's return on equity of 12.52% beat Designer Brands' return on equity.
Designer Brands received 180 more outperform votes than Shoe Carnival when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.30% of users gave Shoe Carnival an outperform vote while only 58.75% of users gave Designer Brands an outperform vote.
88.8% of Designer Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.1% of Shoe Carnival shares are held by institutional investors. 63.1% of Designer Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 34.7% of Shoe Carnival shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Shoe Carnival has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Designer Brands. Designer Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shoe Carnival, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Shoe Carnival had 12 more articles in the media than Designer Brands. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Shoe Carnival and 9 mentions for Designer Brands. Shoe Carnival's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Designer Brands' score of 0.05 indicating that Shoe Carnival is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Designer Brands currently has a consensus price target of $4.75, indicating a potential upside of 19.80%. Shoe Carnival has a consensus price target of $51.00, indicating a potential upside of 130.25%. Given Shoe Carnival's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Shoe Carnival is more favorable than Designer Brands.
Designer Brands has a beta of 2.08, indicating that its stock price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shoe Carnival has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Shoe Carnival beats Designer Brands on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:DBI) was last updated on 3/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
