CAL vs. WWW, SHOO, SPHR, GIII, MCRI, GES, BV, OSW, MSGE, and AMWD
Should you be buying Caleres stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Caleres include Wolverine World Wide (WWW), Steven Madden (SHOO), Sphere Entertainment (SPHR), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), Monarch Casino & Resort (MCRI), Guess? (GES), BrightView (BV), OneSpaWorld (OSW), Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE), and American Woodmark (AMWD). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Wolverine World Wide (NYSE:WWW) and Caleres (NYSE:CAL) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
Wolverine World Wide has a beta of 1.73, indicating that its share price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Caleres has a beta of 2.01, indicating that its share price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Wolverine World Wide and Wolverine World Wide both had 5 articles in the media. Wolverine World Wide's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Caleres' score of -0.13 indicating that Caleres is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Caleres has a net margin of 6.10% compared to Caleres' net margin of -3.59%. Wolverine World Wide's return on equity of 29.77% beat Caleres' return on equity.
Wolverine World Wide currently has a consensus price target of $11.67, suggesting a potential downside of 13.32%. Caleres has a consensus price target of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.35%. Given Wolverine World Wide's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Caleres is more favorable than Wolverine World Wide.
90.3% of Wolverine World Wide shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Caleres shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Wolverine World Wide shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Caleres shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Wolverine World Wide received 42 more outperform votes than Caleres when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.64% of users gave Caleres an outperform vote while only 50.97% of users gave Wolverine World Wide an outperform vote.
Wolverine World Wide pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Caleres pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Wolverine World Wide pays out -43.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Caleres pays out 5.8% 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. Wolverine World Wide is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Caleres has higher revenue and earnings than Wolverine World Wide. Wolverine World Wide is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Caleres, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Caleres beats Wolverine World Wide on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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