BC vs. GIL, REYN, CHH, BYD, WH, WHR, BFAM, LBTYA, NXST, and MAT
Should you be buying Brunswick stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brunswick include Gildan Activewear (GIL), Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Boyd Gaming (BYD), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), Whirlpool (WHR), Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), and Mattel (MAT). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Brunswick (NYSE:BC) and Gildan Activewear (NYSE:GIL) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Brunswick has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gildan Activewear has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
99.3% of Brunswick shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.8% of Gildan Activewear shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Brunswick shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Gildan Activewear shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Gildan Activewear has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Brunswick. Gildan Activewear is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brunswick, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brunswick received 77 more outperform votes than Gildan Activewear when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.10% of users gave Brunswick an outperform vote while only 69.54% of users gave Gildan Activewear an outperform vote.
Brunswick currently has a consensus price target of $92.83, suggesting a potential upside of 14.50%. Gildan Activewear has a consensus price target of $41.25, suggesting a potential upside of 16.86%. Given Gildan Activewear's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gildan Activewear is more favorable than Brunswick.
In the previous week, Brunswick had 16 more articles in the media than Gildan Activewear. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Brunswick and 17 mentions for Gildan Activewear. Gildan Activewear's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Brunswick's score of 0.08 indicating that Gildan Activewear is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gildan Activewear has a net margin of 16.70% compared to Brunswick's net margin of 6.24%. Brunswick's return on equity of 25.37% beat Gildan Activewear's return on equity.
Brunswick pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Gildan Activewear pays an annual dividend of $0.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Brunswick pays out 31.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gildan Activewear pays out 27.1% 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. Gildan Activewear is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Gildan Activewear beats Brunswick on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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