SIG vs. AEO, GPI, AAP, SHAK, CPRI, ABG, GLBE, URBN, SG, and GMS
Should you be buying Signet Jewelers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Signet Jewelers include American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), Shake Shack (SHAK), Capri (CPRI), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Global-E Online (GLBE), Urban Outfitters (URBN), Sweetgreen (SG), and GMS (GMS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE:AEO) and Signet Jewelers (NYSE:SIG) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Signet Jewelers has a net margin of 11.30% compared to Signet Jewelers' net margin of 3.23%. American Eagle Outfitters' return on equity of 32.26% beat Signet Jewelers' return on equity.
97.3% of American Eagle Outfitters shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of American Eagle Outfitters shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Signet Jewelers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
American Eagle Outfitters has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Signet Jewelers has a beta of 2.15, meaning that its stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500.
American Eagle Outfitters received 366 more outperform votes than Signet Jewelers when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.92% of users gave Signet Jewelers an outperform vote while only 64.34% of users gave American Eagle Outfitters an outperform vote.
American Eagle Outfitters currently has a consensus price target of $24.44, indicating a potential upside of 5.55%. Signet Jewelers has a consensus price target of $120.20, indicating a potential upside of 16.99%. Given American Eagle Outfitters' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Signet Jewelers is more favorable than American Eagle Outfitters.
American Eagle Outfitters pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Signet Jewelers pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. American Eagle Outfitters pays out 58.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Signet Jewelers pays out 7.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. American Eagle Outfitters has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Signet Jewelers has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Signet Jewelers has higher revenue and earnings than American Eagle Outfitters. Signet Jewelers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Eagle Outfitters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, American Eagle Outfitters had 22 more articles in the media than Signet Jewelers. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for American Eagle Outfitters and 2 mentions for Signet Jewelers. Signet Jewelers' average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat American Eagle Outfitters' score of 0.72 indicating that American Eagle Outfitters is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Signet Jewelers beats American Eagle Outfitters on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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