GCO vs. DBI, SCVL, TTSH, NEGG, PBPB, JILL, LOCO, NATH, GENK, and QRTEA
Should you be buying Genesco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genesco include Designer Brands (DBI), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Tile Shop (TTSH), Newegg Commerce (NEGG), Potbelly (PBPB), J.Jill (JILL), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Nathan's Famous (NATH), GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), and Qurate Retail (QRTEA). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Designer Brands (NYSE:DBI) and Genesco (NYSE:GCO) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.
Designer Brands received 219 more outperform votes than Genesco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.80% of users gave Designer Brands an outperform vote while only 57.12% of users gave Genesco an outperform vote.
Designer Brands currently has a consensus target price of $9.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.96%. Genesco has a consensus target price of $31.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.11%. Given Designer Brands' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Genesco is more favorable than Designer Brands.
Designer Brands has a beta of 2.09, indicating that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genesco has a beta of 2.29, indicating that its stock price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500.
88.8% of Designer Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Genesco shares are owned by institutional investors. 41.7% of Designer Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Genesco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Designer Brands has a net margin of 0.95% compared to Designer Brands' net margin of -0.72%. Genesco's return on equity of 10.49% beat Designer Brands' return on equity.
Designer Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Genesco. Genesco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Designer Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Designer Brands had 1 more articles in the media than Genesco. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Designer Brands and 1 mentions for Genesco. Genesco's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Designer Brands' score of -0.71 indicating that Designer Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Designer Brands beats Genesco on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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