BKE vs. AEO, ANF, JWN, ODP, CAKE, ARHS, FL, PZZA, EAT, and SAH
Should you be buying Buckle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Buckle include American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), Nordstrom (JWN), ODP (ODP), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Arhaus (ARHS), Foot Locker (FL), Papa John's International (PZZA), Brinker International (EAT), and Sonic Automotive (SAH). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE:AEO) and Buckle (NYSE:BKE) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
American Eagle Outfitters presently has a consensus price target of $22.18, suggesting a potential downside of 11.77%. Buckle has a consensus price target of $34.00, suggesting a potential downside of 9.45%. Given American Eagle Outfitters' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Buckle is more favorable than American Eagle Outfitters.
American Eagle Outfitters pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Buckle pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. American Eagle Outfitters pays out 58.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Buckle pays out 31.7% 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. Buckle is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
American Eagle Outfitters has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Buckle has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
97.3% of American Eagle Outfitters shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of Buckle shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.5% of American Eagle Outfitters shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 39.8% of Buckle shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
American Eagle Outfitters received 767 more outperform votes than Buckle when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.36% of users gave American Eagle Outfitters an outperform vote while only 57.40% of users gave Buckle an outperform vote.
Buckle has a net margin of 17.44% compared to Buckle's net margin of 3.23%. American Eagle Outfitters' return on equity of 50.88% beat Buckle's return on equity.
In the previous week, American Eagle Outfitters had 8 more articles in the media than Buckle. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for American Eagle Outfitters and 0 mentions for Buckle. American Eagle Outfitters' average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat Buckle's score of 0.87 indicating that Buckle is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Buckle has lower revenue, but higher earnings than American Eagle Outfitters. Buckle 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.
Summary
Buckle beats American Eagle Outfitters on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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