DBI vs. SCVL, GES, ZUMZ, GCO, PLCE, CTRN, CATO, TLYS, EXPR, 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), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Genesco (GCO), Children's Place (PLCE), Citi Trends (CTRN), Cato (CATO), Tilly's (TLYS), Express (EXPR), 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 investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.
Shoe Carnival has a net margin of 6.26% compared to Designer Brands' net margin of -0.16%. Shoe Carnival's return on equity of 13.26% beat Designer Brands' return on equity.
Designer Brands presently has a consensus price target of $7.83, suggesting a potential upside of 68.28%. Shoe Carnival has a consensus price target of $42.00, suggesting a potential upside of 25.45%. Given Designer Brands' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Designer Brands is more favorable than Shoe Carnival.
In the previous week, Shoe Carnival had 5 more articles in the media than Designer Brands. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Shoe Carnival and 1 mentions for Designer Brands. Shoe Carnival's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Designer Brands' score of 0.00 indicating that Shoe Carnival is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Designer Brands has a beta of 2.05, suggesting that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shoe Carnival has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Designer Brands received 180 more outperform votes than Shoe Carnival when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.49% of users gave Shoe Carnival an outperform vote while only 59.43% of users gave Designer Brands an outperform vote.
88.8% of Designer Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.1% of Shoe Carnival shares are owned by institutional investors. 63.1% of Designer Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 34.7% of Shoe Carnival shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Designer Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Shoe Carnival pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Designer Brands pays out -200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shoe Carnival pays out 19.1% 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 13 consecutive years. Designer Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Shoe Carnival beats Designer Brands on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:DBI) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
