ESCA vs. CLAR, AOUT, JOUT, LVO, MAMO, VIRC, QSG, FLXS, FLL, and HOFT
Should you be buying Escalade stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Escalade include Clarus (CLAR), American Outdoor Brands (AOUT), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), LiveOne (LVO), Massimo Group (MAMO), Virco Mfg. (VIRC), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Flexsteel Industries (FLXS), Full House Resorts (FLL), and Hooker Furnishings (HOFT). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Clarus (NASDAQ:CLAR) and Escalade (NASDAQ:ESCA) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
90.3% of Clarus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.2% of Escalade shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.4% of Clarus shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.2% of Escalade shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Escalade has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Clarus. Escalade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clarus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Clarus received 91 more outperform votes than Escalade when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.75% of users gave Escalade an outperform vote while only 64.44% of users gave Clarus an outperform vote.
Clarus pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Escalade pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Clarus pays out 38.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Escalade pays out 65.9% 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.
Clarus currently has a consensus target price of $9.92, suggesting a potential upside of 44.56%. Given Escalade's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Clarus is more favorable than Escalade.
Escalade has a net margin of 4.76% compared to Escalade's net margin of 3.08%. Clarus' return on equity of 7.74% beat Escalade's return on equity.
Clarus has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Escalade has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Clarus had 4 more articles in the media than Escalade. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Clarus and 8 mentions for Escalade. Escalade's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Clarus' score of 0.25 indicating that Clarus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Clarus beats Escalade on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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