ESCA vs. CLAR, AOUT, JOUT, LVO, MAMO, VIRC, QSG, FLXS, FLL, and HOFT
Should you be buying Escalade stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Escalade include Clarus (CLAR), American Outdoor Brands (AOUT), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), LiveOne (LVO), Massimo Group (MAMO), Virco Mfg. (VIRC), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Flexsteel Industries (FLXS), Full House Resorts (FLL), and Hooker Furnishings (HOFT). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Escalade (NASDAQ:ESCA) and Clarus (NASDAQ:CLAR) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
Clarus has a consensus price target of $9.92, suggesting a potential upside of 44.35%. Given Clarus' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Clarus is more favorable than Escalade.
Escalade has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clarus has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Clarus had 11 more articles in the media than Escalade. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Clarus and 6 mentions for Escalade. Clarus' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Escalade's score of 0.10 indicating that Clarus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Escalade pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Clarus pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Escalade pays out 65.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Clarus pays out 38.5% 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.
Escalade has a net margin of 4.76% compared to Clarus' net margin of 3.08%. Escalade's return on equity of 7.74% beat Clarus' return on equity.
65.2% of Escalade shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Clarus shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.2% of Escalade shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.4% of Clarus shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Clarus received 91 more outperform votes than Escalade when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.75% of users gave Escalade an outperform vote while only 64.44% of users gave Clarus an outperform vote.
Escalade has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Clarus. Escalade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clarus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Clarus beats Escalade on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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