CRI vs. GIII, COLM, UAA, GIL, AS, PENN, LAUR, MCW, ATAT, and CUK
Should you be buying Carter's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carter's include G-III Apparel Group (GIII), Columbia Sportswear (COLM), Under Armour (UAA), Gildan Activewear (GIL), Amer Sports (AS), PENN Entertainment (PENN), Laureate Education (LAUR), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Atour Lifestyle (ATAT), and Carnival Co. & (CUK). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
G-III Apparel Group (NASDAQ:GIII) and Carter's (NYSE:CRI) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
G-III Apparel Group received 138 more outperform votes than Carter's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.38% of users gave G-III Apparel Group an outperform vote while only 59.85% of users gave Carter's an outperform vote.
92.1% of G-III Apparel Group shares are held by institutional investors. 13.2% of G-III Apparel Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Carter's shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Carter's had 7 more articles in the media than G-III Apparel Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Carter's and 3 mentions for G-III Apparel Group. G-III Apparel Group's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Carter's' score of 0.90 indicating that Carter's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
G-III Apparel Group presently has a consensus price target of $25.83, suggesting a potential downside of 6.94%. Carter's has a consensus price target of $73.80, suggesting a potential upside of 7.49%. Given G-III Apparel Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Carter's is more favorable than G-III Apparel Group.
G-III Apparel Group has a beta of 2.38, meaning that its stock price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carter's has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Carter's has lower revenue, but higher earnings than G-III Apparel Group. G-III Apparel Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carter's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Carter's has a net margin of 8.06% compared to Carter's' net margin of 5.69%. G-III Apparel Group's return on equity of 28.55% beat Carter's' return on equity.
Summary
Carter's beats G-III Apparel Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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