SCVL vs. DBI, GCO, FL, BOOT, FVRR, FIGS, HIBB, JACK, HLF, and GOOS
Should you be buying Shoe Carnival stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shoe Carnival include Designer Brands (DBI), Genesco (GCO), Foot Locker (FL), Boot Barn (BOOT), Fiverr International (FVRR), FIGS (FIGS), Hibbett (HIBB), Jack in the Box (JACK), Herbalife (HLF), and Canada Goose (GOOS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Shoe Carnival (NASDAQ:SCVL) and Designer Brands (NYSE:DBI) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Shoe Carnival has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Designer Brands has a beta of 2.09, suggesting that its share price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
66.1% of Shoe Carnival shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.8% of Designer Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.5% of Shoe Carnival shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 63.1% 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 is poised for long-term growth.
Designer Brands received 181 more outperform votes than Shoe Carnival when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.44% of users gave Shoe Carnival an outperform vote while only 59.80% of users gave Designer Brands an outperform vote.
Shoe Carnival pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Designer Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Shoe Carnival pays out 20.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Designer Brands pays out 52.6% 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.
Shoe Carnival has a net margin of 6.24% compared to Designer Brands' net margin of 0.95%. Shoe Carnival's return on equity of 13.17% beat Designer Brands' return on equity.
In the previous week, Shoe Carnival and Shoe Carnival both had 2 articles in the media. Shoe Carnival's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Designer Brands' score of 0.13 indicating that Shoe Carnival is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Shoe Carnival presently has a consensus target price of $36.50, suggesting a potential upside of 5.95%. Designer Brands has a consensus target price of $9.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.43%. Given Shoe Carnival's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Shoe Carnival is more favorable than Designer Brands.
Shoe Carnival has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Designer Brands. Shoe Carnival is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Designer Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Shoe Carnival beats Designer Brands on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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