RL vs. TPR, VFC, COLM, PVH, HBI, CRI, GIII, OXM, MOV, and FOSL
Should you be buying Ralph Lauren stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ralph Lauren include Tapestry (TPR), VF (VFC), Columbia Sportswear (COLM), PVH (PVH), Hanesbrands (HBI), Carter's (CRI), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), Oxford Industries (OXM), Movado Group (MOV), and Fossil Group (FOSL). These companies are all part of the "apparel accessories & luxury goods" industry.
Ralph Lauren vs.
Ralph Lauren (NYSE:RL) and Tapestry (NYSE:TPR) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Ralph Lauren presently has a consensus target price of $284.62, suggesting a potential upside of 22.51%. Tapestry has a consensus target price of $78.53, suggesting a potential upside of 5.07%. Given Ralph Lauren's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ralph Lauren is more favorable than Tapestry.
Ralph Lauren has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tapestry has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tapestry has a net margin of 11.74% compared to Ralph Lauren's net margin of 10.14%. Tapestry's return on equity of 44.00% beat Ralph Lauren's return on equity.
67.9% of Ralph Lauren shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Tapestry shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.5% of Ralph Lauren shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Tapestry 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.
Ralph Lauren pays an annual dividend of $3.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Tapestry pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Ralph Lauren pays out 30.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tapestry pays out 40.6% 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.
Tapestry received 805 more outperform votes than Ralph Lauren when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.01% of users gave Tapestry an outperform vote while only 62.48% of users gave Ralph Lauren an outperform vote.
Tapestry has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ralph Lauren. Ralph Lauren is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tapestry, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Tapestry had 1 more articles in the media than Ralph Lauren. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Tapestry and 18 mentions for Ralph Lauren. Tapestry's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Ralph Lauren's score of 1.04 indicating that Tapestry is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Tapestry beats Ralph Lauren on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:RL) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
