SCVL vs. DBI, GCO, FL, BOOT, HLF, PTLO, HIBB, ETD, CARS, and FIGS
Should you be buying Shoe Carnival stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shoe Carnival include Designer Brands (DBI), Genesco (GCO), Foot Locker (FL), Boot Barn (BOOT), Herbalife (HLF), Portillo's (PTLO), Hibbett (HIBB), Ethan Allen Interiors (ETD), Cars.com (CARS), and FIGS (FIGS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Designer Brands (NYSE:DBI) and Shoe Carnival (NASDAQ:SCVL) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Designer Brands has a beta of 2.06, meaning that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shoe Carnival has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
88.8% of Designer Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.1% of Shoe Carnival shares are held by institutional investors. 41.7% of Designer Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 34.5% of Shoe Carnival shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Shoe Carnival has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Designer Brands. Shoe Carnival is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Designer Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Designer Brands received 181 more outperform votes than Shoe Carnival when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.44% of users gave Shoe Carnival an outperform vote while only 59.80% of users gave Designer Brands an outperform vote.
Designer Brands currently has a consensus target price of $9.00, indicating a potential downside of 6.83%. Shoe Carnival has a consensus target price of $36.50, indicating a potential upside of 5.71%. Given Designer Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Shoe Carnival is more favorable than Designer Brands.
In the previous week, Shoe Carnival had 1 more articles in the media than Designer Brands. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Shoe Carnival and 1 mentions for Designer Brands. Designer Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Shoe Carnival's score of 0.00 indicating that Shoe Carnival is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Shoe Carnival has a net margin of 6.24% compared to Shoe Carnival's net margin of 0.95%. Designer Brands' return on equity of 13.17% beat Shoe Carnival's return on equity.
Designer Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Shoe Carnival pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Designer Brands pays out 52.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shoe Carnival pays out 20.1% 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. Shoe Carnival has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Summary
Shoe Carnival beats Designer Brands on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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