AS vs. GIL, COLM, UAA, CRI, DLB, MHK, CZR, TAL, PARA, and HAS
Should you be buying Amer Sports stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amer Sports include Gildan Activewear (GIL), Columbia Sportswear (COLM), Under Armour (UAA), Carter's (CRI), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), Mohawk Industries (MHK), Caesars Entertainment (CZR), TAL Education Group (TAL), Paramount Global (PARA), and Hasbro (HAS). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Gildan Activewear (NYSE:GIL) and Amer Sports (NYSE:AS) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and media sentiment.
Gildan Activewear has a net margin of 16.14% compared to Gildan Activewear's net margin of 0.00%. Amer Sports' return on equity of 24.00% beat Gildan Activewear's return on equity.
Gildan Activewear currently has a consensus target price of $41.95, suggesting a potential upside of 17.68%. Amer Sports has a consensus target price of $18.86, suggesting a potential upside of 25.30%. Given Gildan Activewear's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Amer Sports is more favorable than Gildan Activewear.
82.8% of Gildan Activewear shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.3% of Amer Sports shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Gildan Activewear shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Amer Sports had 3 more articles in the media than Gildan Activewear. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Amer Sports and 20 mentions for Gildan Activewear. Amer Sports' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Gildan Activewear's score of 0.38 indicating that Gildan Activewear is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gildan Activewear has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Amer Sports.
Gildan Activewear received 689 more outperform votes than Amer Sports when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 82.35% of users gave Amer Sports an outperform vote while only 69.60% of users gave Gildan Activewear an outperform vote.
Summary
Gildan Activewear beats Amer Sports on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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