GCO vs. DBI, SCVL, NEGG, GENK, TTSH, PBPB, DDL, JILL, ZUMZ, and LOVE
Should you be buying Genesco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genesco include Designer Brands (DBI), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Newegg Commerce (NEGG), GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), Tile Shop (TTSH), Potbelly (PBPB), Dingdong (Cayman) (DDL), J.Jill (JILL), Zumiez (ZUMZ), and Lovesac (LOVE). 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 better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
Designer Brands has a net margin of 0.95% compared to Genesco's net margin of -0.72%. Designer Brands' return on equity of 10.49% beat Genesco's return on equity.
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.
Genesco has a beta of 2.28, indicating that its stock price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Designer Brands has a beta of 2.06, indicating that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.
94.5% of Genesco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.8% of Designer Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 6.3% of Genesco shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.7% of Designer Brands 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.
Genesco currently has a consensus target price of $31.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.38%. Designer Brands has a consensus target price of $9.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.91%. Given Genesco's 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.
In the previous week, Genesco and Genesco both had 1 articles in the media. Genesco's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Designer Brands' score of 0.18 indicating that Genesco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Designer Brands beats Genesco on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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