GCO vs. DBI, SCVL, JILL, AKA, QRTEA, TTSH, SFIX, NATH, LOCO, and PBPB
Should you be buying Genesco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genesco include Designer Brands (DBI), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), J.Jill (JILL), a.k.a. Brands (AKA), Qurate Retail (QRTEA), Tile Shop (TTSH), Stitch Fix (SFIX), Nathan's Famous (NATH), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), and Potbelly (PBPB). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Designer Brands (NYSE:DBI) and Genesco (NYSE:GCO) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
88.8% of Designer Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Genesco shares are owned by institutional investors. 63.1% of Designer Brands shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Genesco shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
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.
Designer Brands currently has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.76%. Genesco has a consensus price target of $31.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.30%. Given Designer Brands' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Genesco is more favorable than Designer Brands.
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 0.37 beat Genesco's score of 0.00 indicating that Genesco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Designer Brands has a beta of 2.09, suggesting that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genesco has a beta of 2.29, suggesting that its stock price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Designer Brands beats Genesco on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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