BOOT vs. FL, SCVL, JWN, RUSHA, RUSHB, WEN, ACVA, GMS, SG, and URBN
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), Nordstrom (JWN), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), Rush Enterprises (RUSHB), Wendy's (WEN), ACV Auctions (ACVA), GMS (GMS), Sweetgreen (SG), and Urban Outfitters (URBN). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Foot Locker (NYSE:FL) and Boot Barn (NYSE:BOOT) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
Foot Locker presently has a consensus target price of $24.20, suggesting a potential upside of 7.70%. Boot Barn has a consensus target price of $110.45, suggesting a potential downside of 0.37%. Given Boot Barn's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Foot Locker is more favorable than Boot Barn.
Foot Locker has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boot Barn has a beta of 2.15, suggesting that its share price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Foot Locker received 963 more outperform votes than Boot Barn when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.86% of users gave Foot Locker an outperform vote while only 62.93% of users gave Boot Barn an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Boot Barn had 26 more articles in the media than Foot Locker. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Boot Barn and 17 mentions for Foot Locker. Foot Locker's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Boot Barn's score of 0.35 indicating that Boot Barn is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Boot Barn has a net margin of 8.82% compared to Boot Barn's net margin of -4.04%. Foot Locker's return on equity of 16.84% beat Boot Barn's return on equity.
Boot Barn has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Summary
Boot Barn beats Foot Locker on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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