DBI vs. GCO, SCVL, FL, CURV, TAST, TITN, CHUY, MOV, HVT, and FLWS
Should you be buying Designer Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Designer Brands include Genesco (GCO), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Foot Locker (FL), Torrid (CURV), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Titan Machinery (TITN), Chuy's (CHUY), Movado Group (MOV), Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT), and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Genesco (NYSE:GCO) and Designer Brands (NYSE:DBI) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
Designer Brands has a net margin of 0.95% compared to Designer Brands' net margin of -0.72%. Genesco's return on equity of 10.49% beat Designer Brands' return on equity.
In the previous week, Genesco and Genesco both had 1 articles in the media. Genesco's average media sentiment score of -0.39 beat Designer Brands' score of -0.71 indicating that Designer Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Genesco has a beta of 2.29, meaning that its share price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Designer Brands has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its share price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Genesco currently has a consensus price target of $31.00, suggesting a potential upside of 17.65%. Designer Brands has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.56%. Given Designer Brands' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Genesco is more favorable than Designer Brands.
Designer Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Genesco. Genesco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Designer Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
94.5% of Genesco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.8% of Designer Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.3% of Genesco shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 41.7% of Designer Brands shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Designer Brands received 219 more outperform votes than Genesco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.80% of users gave Designer Brands an outperform vote while only 57.12% of users gave Genesco an outperform vote.
Summary
Designer Brands beats Genesco on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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