PUM vs. ZAL, EVD, HLE, PAH3, HFG, KBX, SAX, PSM, VOW3, and KER
Should you be buying Puma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Puma include Zalando (ZAL), CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA (EVD), HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA (HLE), Porsche Automobil (PAH3), HelloFresh (HFG), Knorr-Bremse (KBX), Ströer SE & Co. KGaA (SAX), ProSiebenSat.1 Media (PSM), Volkswagen (VOW3), and Kering (KER). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Puma vs.
Zalando (ETR:ZAL) and Puma (ETR:PUM) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
Zalando has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Puma has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
65.3% of Zalando shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.7% of Puma shares are held by institutional investors. 9.9% of Zalando shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Puma shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Puma had 1 more articles in the media than Zalando. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Puma and 14 mentions for Zalando. Puma's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Zalando's score of 0.10 indicating that Puma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Puma received 56 more outperform votes than Zalando when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.92% of users gave Zalando an outperform vote while only 35.56% of users gave Puma an outperform vote.
Puma has a net margin of 4.00% compared to Zalando's net margin of 0.38%. Puma's return on equity of 16.43% beat Zalando's return on equity.
Zalando currently has a consensus price target of €41.71, indicating a potential upside of 63.52%. Puma has a consensus price target of €75.83, indicating a potential upside of 61.55%. Given Zalando's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Zalando is more favorable than Puma.
Puma has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Zalando. Puma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zalando, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Puma beats Zalando on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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