JOUT vs. CLAR, ESCA, AOUT, MCS, LIND, LINC, WOW, NRDY, ONEW, and MPX
Should you be buying Johnson Outdoors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Johnson Outdoors include Clarus (CLAR), Escalade (ESCA), American Outdoor Brands (AOUT), Marcus (MCS), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), WideOpenWest (WOW), Nerdy (NRDY), OneWater Marine (ONEW), and Marine Products (MPX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Johnson Outdoors (NASDAQ:JOUT) and Clarus (NASDAQ:CLAR) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.
Clarus has a net margin of 3.08% compared to Johnson Outdoors' net margin of 0.82%. Clarus' return on equity of 1.01% beat Johnson Outdoors' return on equity.
Clarus has a consensus price target of $9.92, suggesting a potential upside of 43.10%. Given Clarus' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Clarus is more favorable than Johnson Outdoors.
In the previous week, Johnson Outdoors and Johnson Outdoors both had 2 articles in the media. Johnson Outdoors' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Clarus' score of 0.56 indicating that Johnson Outdoors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Johnson Outdoors has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clarus has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Clarus received 51 more outperform votes than Johnson Outdoors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.48% of users gave Johnson Outdoors an outperform vote while only 64.44% of users gave Clarus an outperform vote.
64.1% of Johnson Outdoors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Clarus shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.7% of Johnson Outdoors shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.4% of Clarus shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Johnson Outdoors has higher revenue and earnings than Clarus. Clarus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Johnson Outdoors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Johnson Outdoors pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Clarus pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Johnson Outdoors pays out 280.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Clarus pays out 38.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Johnson Outdoors and Clarus tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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