JOUT vs. CLAR, ESCA, PTON, FUBO, MCS, NRDY, VTRU, LIND, MPX, and RICK
Should you be buying Johnson Outdoors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Johnson Outdoors include Clarus (CLAR), Escalade (ESCA), Peloton Interactive (PTON), fuboTV (FUBO), Marcus (MCS), Nerdy (NRDY), Vitru (VTRU), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), Marine Products (MPX), and RCI Hospitality (RICK). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Johnson Outdoors (NASDAQ:JOUT) and Clarus (NASDAQ:CLAR) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Clarus had 2 more articles in the media than Johnson Outdoors. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Clarus and 1 mentions for Johnson Outdoors. Johnson Outdoors' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Clarus' score of 0.49 indicating that Johnson Outdoors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clarus has a consensus target price of $9.75, indicating a potential upside of 55.25%. Given Clarus' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Clarus is more favorable than Johnson Outdoors.
Clarus received 50 more outperform votes than Johnson Outdoors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.48% of users gave Johnson Outdoors an outperform vote while only 64.37% of users gave Clarus an outperform vote.
Johnson Outdoors has higher revenue and earnings than Clarus. Clarus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Johnson Outdoors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Johnson Outdoors has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clarus has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
64.1% of Johnson Outdoors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Clarus shares are held by institutional investors. 27.7% of Johnson Outdoors shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.4% of Clarus shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Johnson Outdoors pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Clarus pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Johnson Outdoors pays out 77.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Clarus pays out -37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Johnson Outdoors has a net margin of 2.82% compared to Clarus' net margin of -2.84%. Johnson Outdoors' return on equity of 3.47% beat Clarus' return on equity.
Summary
Johnson Outdoors beats Clarus on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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