AOUT vs. ESCA, CLAR, AENT, UONE, GNSS, CNTY, BSET, GAIA, SCX, and PNST
Should you be buying American Outdoor Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Outdoor Brands include Escalade (ESCA), Clarus (CLAR), Alliance Entertainment (AENT), Urban One (UONE), Genasys (GNSS), Century Casinos (CNTY), Bassett Furniture Industries (BSET), Gaia (GAIA), L.S. Starrett (SCX), and Pinstripes (PNST). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Escalade (NASDAQ:ESCA) and American Outdoor Brands (NASDAQ:AOUT) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Escalade has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Outdoor Brands has a beta of 0.3, meaning that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Escalade has a net margin of 3.73% compared to Escalade's net margin of -5.47%. American Outdoor Brands' return on equity of 6.14% beat Escalade's return on equity.
Escalade has higher revenue and earnings than American Outdoor Brands. American Outdoor Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Escalade, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
65.2% of Escalade shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of American Outdoor Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.8% of Escalade shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of American Outdoor Brands shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
American Outdoor Brands has a consensus target price of $13.00, suggesting a potential upside of 56.63%. Given Escalade's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe American Outdoor Brands is more favorable than Escalade.
Escalade received 206 more outperform votes than American Outdoor Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.66% of users gave Escalade an outperform vote while only 57.69% of users gave American Outdoor Brands an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Escalade had 9 more articles in the media than American Outdoor Brands. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Escalade and 2 mentions for American Outdoor Brands. Escalade's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat American Outdoor Brands' score of -0.12 indicating that American Outdoor Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Escalade beats American Outdoor Brands on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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