UAA vs. CRI, GIII, COLM, GIL, AS, MODG, MLCO, SHOO, LRN, and UA
Should you be buying Under Armour stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Under Armour include Carter's (CRI), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), Columbia Sportswear (COLM), Gildan Activewear (GIL), Amer Sports (AS), Topgolf Callaway Brands (MODG), Melco Resorts & Entertainment (MLCO), Steven Madden (SHOO), Stride (LRN), and Under Armour (UA). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Under Armour (NYSE:UAA) and Carter's (NYSE:CRI) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Under Armour has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carter's has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Under Armour has higher revenue and earnings than Carter's. Under Armour is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carter's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
34.6% of Under Armour shares are held by institutional investors. 16.4% of Under Armour shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Carter's shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Under Armour had 4 more articles in the media than Carter's. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Under Armour and 3 mentions for Carter's. Carter's' average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Under Armour's score of -0.15 indicating that Carter's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Under Armour presently has a consensus target price of $8.05, suggesting a potential upside of 20.51%. Carter's has a consensus target price of $73.80, suggesting a potential upside of 7.02%. Given Under Armour's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Under Armour is more favorable than Carter's.
Carter's has a net margin of 8.06% compared to Under Armour's net margin of 6.98%. Carter's' return on equity of 28.55% beat Under Armour's return on equity.
Under Armour received 1035 more outperform votes than Carter's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.12% of users gave Under Armour an outperform vote while only 59.85% of users gave Carter's an outperform vote.
Summary
Under Armour beats Carter's on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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