BIRK vs. SKX, SHOO, HAS, CROX, PSO, PARA, TAL, ROKU, LNW, and DLB
Should you be buying Birkenstock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Birkenstock include Skechers U.S.A. (SKX), Steven Madden (SHOO), Hasbro (HAS), Crocs (CROX), Pearson (PSO), Paramount Global (PARA), TAL Education Group (TAL), Roku (ROKU), Light & Wonder (LNW), and Dolby Laboratories (DLB). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Birkenstock (NYSE:BIRK) and Skechers U.S.A. (NYSE:SKX) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Birkenstock presently has a consensus price target of $49.15, indicating a potential upside of 8.04%. Skechers U.S.A. has a consensus price target of $66.83, indicating a potential downside of 1.40%. Given Birkenstock's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Birkenstock is more favorable than Skechers U.S.A..
19.9% of Birkenstock shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.0% of Skechers U.S.A. shares are held by institutional investors. 24.8% of Skechers U.S.A. shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Birkenstock had 4 more articles in the media than Skechers U.S.A.. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Birkenstock and 4 mentions for Skechers U.S.A.. Skechers U.S.A.'s average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Birkenstock's score of 0.34 indicating that Skechers U.S.A. is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Skechers U.S.A. received 803 more outperform votes than Birkenstock when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.43% of users gave Birkenstock an outperform vote while only 70.58% of users gave Skechers U.S.A. an outperform vote.
Skechers U.S.A. has higher revenue and earnings than Birkenstock.
Skechers U.S.A. has a net margin of 7.17% compared to Birkenstock's net margin of 0.00%. Skechers U.S.A.'s return on equity of 13.56% beat Birkenstock's return on equity.
Summary
Skechers U.S.A. beats Birkenstock on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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