ANF vs. AEO, GPS, BKE, JWN, NSIT, BECN, AN, SFM, GLBE, and W
Should you be buying Abercrombie & Fitch stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Abercrombie & Fitch include American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), GAP (GPS), Buckle (BKE), Nordstrom (JWN), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN), AutoNation (AN), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), Global-E Online (GLBE), and Wayfair (W). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE:AEO) and Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
American Eagle Outfitters presently has a consensus target price of $21.27, suggesting a potential downside of 12.78%. Abercrombie & Fitch has a consensus target price of $122.71, suggesting a potential upside of 0.52%. Given American Eagle Outfitters' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Abercrombie & Fitch is more favorable than American Eagle Outfitters.
Abercrombie & Fitch has a net margin of 7.67% compared to Abercrombie & Fitch's net margin of 3.23%. American Eagle Outfitters' return on equity of 38.80% beat Abercrombie & Fitch's return on equity.
In the previous week, Abercrombie & Fitch had 9 more articles in the media than American Eagle Outfitters. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Abercrombie & Fitch and 7 mentions for American Eagle Outfitters. Abercrombie & Fitch's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat American Eagle Outfitters' score of 0.68 indicating that American Eagle Outfitters is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Abercrombie & Fitch has lower revenue, but higher earnings than American Eagle Outfitters. Abercrombie & Fitch is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Eagle Outfitters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.3% of American Eagle Outfitters shares are held by institutional investors. 7.5% of American Eagle Outfitters shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Abercrombie & Fitch shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Abercrombie & Fitch received 63 more outperform votes than American Eagle Outfitters when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.34% of users gave American Eagle Outfitters an outperform vote while only 59.80% of users gave Abercrombie & Fitch an outperform vote.
American Eagle Outfitters has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Abercrombie & Fitch has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Abercrombie & Fitch beats American Eagle Outfitters on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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