DBI vs. GCO, SCVL, FL, TITN, TAST, BIGC, CHUY, MOV, HVT, and BH
Should you be buying Designer Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Designer Brands include Genesco (GCO), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Foot Locker (FL), Titan Machinery (TITN), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), BigCommerce (BIGC), Chuy's (CHUY), Movado Group (MOV), Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT), and Biglari (BH). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Genesco (NYSE:GCO) and Designer Brands (NYSE:DBI) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
94.5% of Genesco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.8% of Designer Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 6.3% of Genesco shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 63.1% of Designer Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Genesco currently has a consensus price target of $31.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.69%. Designer Brands has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.43%. Given Designer Brands' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Genesco is more favorable than Designer Brands.
Designer Brands received 219 more outperform votes than Genesco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.80% of users gave Designer Brands an outperform vote while only 57.12% of users gave Genesco an outperform vote.
Genesco has a beta of 2.29, suggesting that its stock price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Designer Brands has a beta of 2.09, suggesting that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Designer Brands has a net margin of 0.95% compared to Designer Brands' net margin of -0.72%. Genesco's return on equity of 10.49% beat Designer Brands' return on equity.
In the previous week, Genesco had 2 more articles in the media than Designer Brands. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Genesco and 2 mentions for Designer Brands. Designer Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Genesco's score of 0.13 indicating that Genesco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Designer Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Genesco. Genesco 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
Designer Brands beats Genesco on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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