ZUMZ vs. DLTH, VNCE, CAL, GES, SCVL, DBI, GCO, CTRN, TLYS, and PLCE
Should you be buying Zumiez stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zumiez include Duluth (DLTH), Vince (VNCE), Caleres (CAL), Guess? (GES), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Designer Brands (DBI), Genesco (GCO), Citi Trends (CTRN), Tilly's (TLYS), and Children's Place (PLCE).
Duluth (NASDAQ:DLTH) and Zumiez (NASDAQ:ZUMZ) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Duluth has a net margin of -1.45% compared to Duluth's net margin of -7.15%. Zumiez's return on equity of -4.24% beat Duluth's return on equity.
Zumiez received 223 more outperform votes than Duluth when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.23% of users gave Duluth an outperform vote while only 47.96% of users gave Zumiez an outperform vote.
Duluth currently has a consensus price target of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.95%. Zumiez has a consensus price target of $16.00, indicating a potential downside of 14.80%. Given Zumiez's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Duluth is more favorable than Zumiez.
Duluth has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Zumiez. Duluth is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zumiez, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Duluth had 16 more articles in the media than Zumiez. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Duluth and 2 mentions for Zumiez. Duluth's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Zumiez's score of 0.08 indicating that Zumiez is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Duluth has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zumiez has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
24.4% of Duluth shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Zumiez shares are owned by institutional investors. 35.3% of Duluth shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.3% of Zumiez shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Duluth beats Zumiez on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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