COLM vs. VFC, PVH, HBI, GIII, CRI, OXM, MOV, FOSL, VRA, and RL
Should you be buying Columbia Sportswear stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Columbia Sportswear include VF (VFC), PVH (PVH), Hanesbrands (HBI), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), Carter's (CRI), Oxford Industries (OXM), Movado Group (MOV), Fossil Group (FOSL), Vera Bradley (VRA), and Ralph Lauren (RL). These companies are all part of the "apparel accessories & luxury goods" industry.
Columbia Sportswear vs.
VF (NYSE:VFC) and Columbia Sportswear (NASDAQ:COLM) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Columbia Sportswear has a net margin of 6.63% compared to VF's net margin of -4.63%. VF's return on equity of 14.86% beat Columbia Sportswear's return on equity.
VF currently has a consensus price target of $16.21, indicating a potential upside of 25.13%. Columbia Sportswear has a consensus price target of $70.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.31%. Given VF's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe VF is more favorable than Columbia Sportswear.
Columbia Sportswear has lower revenue, but higher earnings than VF. VF is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Columbia Sportswear, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
86.8% of VF shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.8% of Columbia Sportswear shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of VF shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 44.7% of Columbia Sportswear shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
VF received 493 more outperform votes than Columbia Sportswear when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.12% of users gave VF an outperform vote while only 56.71% of users gave Columbia Sportswear an outperform vote.
VF pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Columbia Sportswear pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. VF pays out -72.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Columbia Sportswear pays out 30.7% 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. VF is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
VF has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Columbia Sportswear has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, VF had 38 more articles in the media than Columbia Sportswear. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for VF and 6 mentions for Columbia Sportswear. Columbia Sportswear's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat VF's score of -0.02 indicating that Columbia Sportswear is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
VF beats Columbia Sportswear on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:COLM) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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