Designer Brands (DBI) Competitors

Designer Brands (NYSE:DBI) and Shoe Carnival (NASDAQ:SCVL) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.

Is DBI or SCVL a better dividend stock?

Designer Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Shoe Carnival pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. 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 increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Designer Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do analysts rate DBI or SCVL?

Designer Brands presently has a consensus price target of $4.75, suggesting a potential upside of 76.65%. Shoe Carnival has a consensus price target of $51.00, suggesting a potential upside of 193.78%. Given Shoe Carnival's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Shoe Carnival is more favorable than Designer Brands.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Designer Brands	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Shoe Carnival	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has more risk and volatility, DBI or SCVL?

Designer Brands has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shoe Carnival has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is DBI or SCVL more profitable?

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.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Designer Brands	-0.07%	3.18%	0.52%
Shoe Carnival	6.12%	12.52%	6.97%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in DBI or SCVL?

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.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Designer Brands	Outperform Votes 668 58.75%	Underperform Votes 469 41.25%
Shoe Carnival	Outperform Votes 488 66.30%	Underperform Votes 248 33.70%

Which has better earnings and valuation, DBI or SCVL?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Designer Brands	$3.01B	0.04	$29.06M	-$0.31	-8.67
Shoe Carnival	$1.20B	0.39	$73.35M	$2.68	6.48

Do institutionals and insiders believe in DBI or SCVL?

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 company insiders. Comparatively, 34.7% of Shoe Carnival shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer DBI or SCVL?

In the previous week, Shoe Carnival had 1 more articles in the media than Designer Brands. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Shoe Carnival and 1 mentions for Designer Brands. Shoe Carnival's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Designer Brands' score of -0.77 indicating that Shoe Carnival is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Designer Brands	Negative
Shoe Carnival	Positive

Summary

Shoe Carnival beats Designer Brands on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.