CLAR vs. ESCA, AOUT, JOUT, AAN, APEI, JAKK, LCUT, KNDI, TSQ, and DOYU
Should you be buying Clarus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clarus include Escalade (ESCA), American Outdoor Brands (AOUT), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), Aaron's (AAN), American Public Education (APEI), JAKKS Pacific (JAKK), Lifetime Brands (LCUT), Kandi Technologies Group (KNDI), Townsquare Media (TSQ), and DouYu International (DOYU). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Escalade (NASDAQ:ESCA) and Clarus (NASDAQ:CLAR) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
In the previous week, Escalade had 15 more articles in the media than Clarus. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Escalade and 3 mentions for Clarus. Escalade's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Clarus' score of 0.05 indicating that Clarus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Escalade has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Clarus. Clarus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Escalade, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Escalade has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clarus has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Escalade pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Clarus pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Escalade pays out 65.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Clarus pays out -37.0% 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.
65.2% of Escalade shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Clarus shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.8% of Escalade shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.4% of Clarus shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Clarus has a consensus price target of $9.75, indicating a potential upside of 55.25%. Given Escalade's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Clarus is more favorable than Escalade.
Escalade has a net margin of 4.76% compared to Escalade's net margin of -2.84%. Clarus' return on equity of 7.78% beat Escalade's return on equity.
Clarus received 91 more outperform votes than Escalade when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.66% of users gave Escalade an outperform vote while only 64.37% of users gave Clarus an outperform vote.
Summary
Escalade beats Clarus on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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