VSCO vs. CATO, BBWI, GIL, BFAM, LBTYK, LBTYA, MAT, REYN, WH, and PLNT
Should you be buying Victoria's Secret & Co. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Victoria's Secret & Co. include Cato (CATO), Bath & Body Works (BBWI), Gildan Activewear (GIL), Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Liberty Global (LBTYK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Mattel (MAT), Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), and Planet Fitness (PLNT).
Cato (NYSE:CATO) and Victoria's Secret & Co. (NYSE:VSCO) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
61.1% of Cato shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Victoria's Secret & Co. shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of Cato shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Victoria's Secret & Co. shares are owned by 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.
Victoria's Secret & Co. has a net margin of 1.77% compared to Victoria's Secret & Co.'s net margin of -2.51%. Cato's return on equity of 56.40% beat Victoria's Secret & Co.'s return on equity.
Cato has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Victoria's Secret & Co. has a beta of 2.05, indicating that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cato received 157 more outperform votes than Victoria's Secret & Co. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.79% of users gave Cato an outperform vote while only 16.35% of users gave Victoria's Secret & Co. an outperform vote.
Victoria's Secret & Co. has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential downside of 21.02%. Given Cato's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Victoria's Secret & Co. is more favorable than Cato.
Victoria's Secret & Co. has higher revenue and earnings than Cato. Cato is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Victoria's Secret & Co., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Cato had 4 more articles in the media than Victoria's Secret & Co.. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Cato and 3 mentions for Victoria's Secret & Co.. Cato's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Victoria's Secret & Co.'s score of 0.36 indicating that Victoria's Secret & Co. is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Victoria's Secret & Co. beats Cato on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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