ESCA vs. CLAR, AOUT, JOUT, EVC, QSG, HOFT, RCKY, FLXS, FLL, and TSQ
Should you be buying Escalade stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Escalade include Clarus (CLAR), American Outdoor Brands (AOUT), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), Entravision Communications (EVC), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Hooker Furnishings (HOFT), Rocky Brands (RCKY), Flexsteel Industries (FLXS), Full House Resorts (FLL), and Townsquare Media (TSQ). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Clarus (NASDAQ:CLAR) and Escalade (NASDAQ:ESCA) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
In the previous week, Clarus had 12 more articles in the media than Escalade. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Clarus and 6 mentions for Escalade. Escalade's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Clarus' score of 0.09 indicating that Clarus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clarus pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Escalade pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Clarus pays out 38.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Escalade pays out 65.9% 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.
Clarus received 90 more outperform votes than Escalade when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.75% of users gave Escalade an outperform vote while only 64.37% of users gave Clarus an outperform vote.
Escalade has a net margin of 4.76% compared to Escalade's net margin of 3.08%. Clarus' return on equity of 7.74% beat Escalade's return on equity.
90.3% of Clarus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.2% of Escalade shares are held by institutional investors. 22.4% of Clarus shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.2% of Escalade shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Escalade has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Clarus. Escalade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clarus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Clarus has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Escalade has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Clarus currently has a consensus target price of $9.75, suggesting a potential upside of 38.10%. Given Escalade's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Clarus is more favorable than Escalade.
Summary
Clarus beats Escalade on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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