AS vs. GIL, COLM, UAA, CRI, WSC, NCLH, MTN, LBRDK, LBRDA, and MHK
Should you be buying Amer Sports stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amer Sports include Gildan Activewear (GIL), Columbia Sportswear (COLM), Under Armour (UAA), Carter's (CRI), WillScot Mobile Mini (WSC), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Vail Resorts (MTN), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), and Mohawk Industries (MHK). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Gildan Activewear (NYSE:GIL) and Amer Sports (NYSE:AS) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Gildan Activewear has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Amer Sports.
82.8% of Gildan Activewear shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.3% of Amer Sports shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Gildan Activewear 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.
In the previous week, Gildan Activewear had 12 more articles in the media than Amer Sports. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Gildan Activewear and 3 mentions for Amer Sports. Gildan Activewear's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Amer Sports' score of -0.06 indicating that Amer Sports is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gildan Activewear has a net margin of 16.14% compared to Gildan Activewear's net margin of 0.00%. Amer Sports' return on equity of 24.00% beat Gildan Activewear's return on equity.
Gildan Activewear currently has a consensus target price of $41.95, indicating a potential upside of 24.90%. Amer Sports has a consensus target price of $18.86, indicating a potential upside of 27.33%. Given Gildan Activewear's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Amer Sports is more favorable than Gildan Activewear.
Gildan Activewear received 689 more outperform votes than Amer Sports when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 82.35% of users gave Amer Sports an outperform vote while only 69.60% of users gave Gildan Activewear an outperform vote.
Summary
Gildan Activewear beats Amer Sports on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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