CAL vs. WWW, SHOO, MCRI, RSI, VSCO, PLYA, GIII, OSW, GES, and LZB
Should you be buying Caleres stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Caleres include Wolverine World Wide (WWW), Steven Madden (SHOO), Monarch Casino & Resort (MCRI), Rush Street Interactive (RSI), Victoria's Secret & Co. (VSCO), Playa Hotels & Resorts (PLYA), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), OneSpaWorld (OSW), Guess? (GES), and La-Z-Boy (LZB).
Wolverine World Wide (NYSE:WWW) and Caleres (NYSE:CAL) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Caleres has higher revenue and earnings than Wolverine World Wide. Wolverine World Wide is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Caleres, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wolverine World Wide presently has a consensus price target of $10.63, indicating a potential upside of 1.67%. Caleres has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.71%. Given Wolverine World Wide's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Caleres is more favorable than Wolverine World Wide.
90.3% of Wolverine World Wide shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Caleres shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Wolverine World Wide shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Caleres shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Wolverine World Wide received 38 more outperform votes than Caleres when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.64% of users gave Caleres an outperform vote while only 50.92% of users gave Wolverine World Wide an outperform vote.
Caleres has a net margin of 6.10% compared to Caleres' net margin of -1.77%. Wolverine World Wide's return on equity of 29.77% beat Caleres' return on equity.
Wolverine World Wide pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Caleres pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Wolverine World Wide pays out -78.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Caleres pays out 5.8% 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. Wolverine World Wide is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Wolverine World Wide had 7 more articles in the media than Caleres. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Wolverine World Wide and 7 mentions for Caleres. Wolverine World Wide's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Caleres' score of 0.47 indicating that Caleres is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wolverine World Wide has a beta of 1.73, suggesting that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Caleres has a beta of 1.99, suggesting that its stock price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Caleres beats Wolverine World Wide on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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