CTRN vs. TLYS, DLTH, VNCE, ZUMZ, CURV, DXLG, DTC, BARK, STKS, and VRA
Should you be buying Citi Trends stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citi Trends include Tilly's (TLYS), Duluth (DLTH), Vince (VNCE), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Torrid (CURV), Destination XL Group (DXLG), Solo Brands (DTC), BARK (BARK), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), and Vera Bradley (VRA).
Citi Trends (NASDAQ:CTRN) and Tilly's (NYSE:TLYS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
Citi Trends has a beta of 2.43, meaning that its stock price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tilly's has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
76.4% of Tilly's shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Citi Trends shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 28.0% of Tilly's shares are owned by company 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.
Citi Trends has higher revenue and earnings than Tilly's. Citi Trends is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tilly's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Citi Trends had 7 more articles in the media than Tilly's. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Citi Trends and 0 mentions for Tilly's. Citi Trends' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Tilly's' score of 0.00 indicating that Citi Trends is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Citi Trends currently has a consensus target price of $27.67, indicating a potential upside of 25.19%. Tilly's has a consensus target price of $7.88, indicating a potential upside of 31.91%. Given Tilly's' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Tilly's is more favorable than Citi Trends.
Citi Trends has a net margin of -1.60% compared to Tilly's' net margin of -5.54%. Citi Trends' return on equity of -6.74% beat Tilly's' return on equity.
Tilly's received 191 more outperform votes than Citi Trends when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.56% of users gave Tilly's an outperform vote while only 55.44% of users gave Citi Trends an outperform vote.
Summary
Citi Trends beats Tilly's on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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