BOOT vs. FL, SCVL, DBI, GCO, BURL, YUMC, WBA, CASY, WING, and TXRH
Should you be buying Boot Barn stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Boot Barn include Foot Locker (FL), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Designer Brands (DBI), Genesco (GCO), Burlington Stores (BURL), Yum China (YUMC), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Wingstop (WING), and Texas Roadhouse (TXRH). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Boot Barn (NYSE:BOOT) and Foot Locker (NYSE:FL) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and profitability.
Foot Locker received 960 more outperform votes than Boot Barn when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.70% of users gave Foot Locker an outperform vote while only 62.99% of users gave Boot Barn an outperform vote.
Boot Barn presently has a consensus target price of $120.64, suggesting a potential downside of 5.76%. Foot Locker has a consensus target price of $24.80, suggesting a potential downside of 3.43%. Given Foot Locker's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Foot Locker is more favorable than Boot Barn.
In the previous week, Boot Barn had 3 more articles in the media than Foot Locker. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Boot Barn and 13 mentions for Foot Locker. Boot Barn's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Foot Locker's score of 0.37 indicating that Boot Barn is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Boot Barn has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Foot Locker. Foot Locker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Boot Barn, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Boot Barn has a beta of 2.16, meaning that its stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Foot Locker has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Boot Barn has a net margin of 8.82% compared to Foot Locker's net margin of -4.41%. Boot Barn's return on equity of 16.84% beat Foot Locker's return on equity.
Summary
Boot Barn beats Foot Locker on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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