HBI vs. PVH, COLM, VFC, CRI, OXM, GIII, MOV, VRA, FOSL, and RL
Should you be buying Hanesbrands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hanesbrands include PVH (PVH), Columbia Sportswear (COLM), V.F. (VFC), Carter's (CRI), Oxford Industries (OXM), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), Movado Group (MOV), Vera Bradley (VRA), Fossil Group (FOSL), and Ralph Lauren (RL). These companies are all part of the "apparel accessories & luxury goods" industry.
PVH (NYSE:PVH) and Hanesbrands (NYSE:HBI) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
PVH has higher revenue and earnings than Hanesbrands. Hanesbrands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PVH, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.3% of PVH shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.3% of Hanesbrands shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of PVH shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Hanesbrands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PVH presently has a consensus price target of $128.50, indicating a potential upside of 7.07%. Hanesbrands has a consensus price target of $5.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.34%. Given Hanesbrands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe PVH is more favorable than Hanesbrands.
In the previous week, PVH had 15 more articles in the media than Hanesbrands. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for PVH and 4 mentions for Hanesbrands. PVH's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Hanesbrands' score of 0.40 indicating that Hanesbrands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PVH has a net margin of 7.20% compared to PVH's net margin of -0.42%. Hanesbrands' return on equity of 12.96% beat PVH's return on equity.
PVH has a beta of 2.24, suggesting that its share price is 124% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hanesbrands has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PVH received 244 more outperform votes than Hanesbrands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.03% of users gave PVH an outperform vote while only 70.73% of users gave Hanesbrands an outperform vote.
Summary
PVH beats Hanesbrands on 17 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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