Designer Brands (DBI) Competitors

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

Which has better valuation and earnings, SCVL or DBI?

Shoe Carnival has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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
Shoe Carnival	$1.18B	0.51	$73.35M	$2.72	8.09
Designer Brands	$3.07B	0.07	$29.06M	-$0.03	-159.78

Do institutionals and insiders believe in SCVL or DBI?

66.1% of Shoe Carnival shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.8% of Designer Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 34.7% of Shoe Carnival shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 63.1% of Designer Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media favor SCVL or DBI?

In the previous week, Shoe Carnival and Shoe Carnival both had 1 articles in the media. Designer Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Shoe Carnival's score of -1.04 indicating that Designer Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Shoe Carnival	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Negative
Designer Brands	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do analysts rate SCVL or DBI?

Shoe Carnival presently has a consensus price target of $51.00, suggesting a potential upside of 131.71%. Designer Brands has a consensus price target of $5.75, suggesting a potential upside of 19.92%. Given Shoe Carnival's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Shoe Carnival is more favorable than Designer Brands.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Shoe Carnival	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
Designer Brands	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is SCVL or DBI a better dividend stock?

Shoe Carnival pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Designer Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Shoe Carnival pays out 19.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Designer Brands pays out -666.4% 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 13 consecutive years. Designer Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has more risk & volatility, SCVL or DBI?

Shoe Carnival has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Designer Brands has a beta of 1.97, suggesting that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SCVL or DBI?

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 59.17% of users gave Designer Brands an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Shoe Carnival	Outperform Votes 488 66.30%	Underperform Votes 248 33.70%
Designer Brands	Outperform Votes 668 59.17%	Underperform Votes 461 40.83%

Is SCVL or DBI 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
Shoe Carnival	6.12%	12.52%	6.97%
Designer Brands	-0.07%	3.18%	0.52%

Summary

Shoe Carnival beats Designer Brands on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.