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Columbia Sportswear (COLM) Competitors

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$66.40 +0.75 (+1.14%)
As of 05/20/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

COLM vs. VFC, PVH, HBI, CRI, GIII, OXM, MOV, FOSL, VRA, and TPR

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), Carter's (CRI), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), Oxford Industries (OXM), Movado Group (MOV), Fossil Group (FOSL), Vera Bradley (VRA), and Tapestry (TPR). 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 superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, 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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
VF-4.63% 14.86% 1.98%
Columbia Sportswear 6.63%12.23%7.93%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
VF$10.15B0.55-$968.88M-$1.19-12.11
Columbia Sportswear$3.38B1.08$223.27M$3.9116.98

VF has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its share price is 68% 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.

VF pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Columbia Sportswear pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. VF pays out -30.3% 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 received 490 more outperform votes than Columbia Sportswear when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.39% of users gave VF an outperform vote while only 56.78% of users gave Columbia Sportswear an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
VFOutperform Votes
980
64.39%
Underperform Votes
542
35.61%
Columbia SportswearOutperform Votes
490
56.78%
Underperform Votes
373
43.22%

VF presently has a consensus target price of $19.35, indicating a potential upside of 34.28%. Columbia Sportswear has a consensus target price of $70.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.42%. Given VF's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe VF is more favorable than Columbia Sportswear.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
VF
1 Sell rating(s)
14 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.24
Columbia Sportswear
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

In the previous week, VF had 41 more articles in the media than Columbia Sportswear. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for VF and 8 mentions for Columbia Sportswear. Columbia Sportswear's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat VF's score of -0.12 indicating that Columbia Sportswear is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
VF
11 Very Positive mention(s)
7 Positive mention(s)
13 Neutral mention(s)
8 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Columbia Sportswear
7 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

VF beats Columbia Sportswear on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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COLM vs. The Competition

MetricColumbia SportswearApparel IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.66B$4.73B$8.03B$8.48B
Dividend Yield1.79%4.00%3.24%4.11%
P/E Ratio17.1614.4115.3920.05
Price / Sales1.081.187.95116.47
Price / Cash18.5012.7016.3734.62
Price / Book2.133.044.814.61
Net Income$223.27M$183.11M$259.18M$248.19M
7 Day Performance-0.97%-0.02%0.11%2.97%
1 Month Performance5.26%16.35%11.91%16.58%
1 Year Performance-22.64%-13.81%-2.80%8.16%

Columbia Sportswear Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
COLM
Columbia Sportswear
3.1037 of 5 stars
$66.40
+1.1%
$70.00
+5.4%
-21.7%$3.66B$3.38B17.169,450Gap Up
VFC
VF
4.2154 of 5 stars
$14.45
+8.8%
$21.40
+48.1%
+17.0%$5.63B$10.15B-12.1435,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
PVH
PVH
4.591 of 5 stars
$79.00
+6.1%
$103.00
+30.4%
-24.8%$4.16B$8.65B6.4331,000Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
HBI
Hanesbrands
2.2315 of 5 stars
$5.33
+4.8%
$5.20
-2.3%
+10.3%$1.88B$3.51B-5.7951,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
CRI
Carter's
2.3281 of 5 stars
$35.92
+5.2%
$36.20
+0.8%
-45.7%$1.31B$2.81B5.7015,500Positive News
GIII
G-III Apparel Group
2.1489 of 5 stars
$27.99
+5.9%
$32.20
+15.0%
+4.4%$1.23B$3.18B7.353,600Positive News
Gap Up
OXM
Oxford Industries
3.6846 of 5 stars
$58.43
+8.7%
$59.00
+1.0%
-47.6%$868.56M$1.52B65.654,700Positive News
Gap Up
MOV
Movado Group
4.9206 of 5 stars
$16.71
+9.8%
$36.25
+116.9%
-36.7%$371.58M$653.38M16.071,300Positive News
FOSL
Fossil Group
0.9299 of 5 stars
$1.31
flat
N/A+16.6%$70.24M$1.14B-0.566,900News Coverage
Earnings Report
VRA
Vera Bradley
0.6085 of 5 stars
$2.09
+11.8%
N/A-72.7%$58.35M$371.97M-3.542,490
TPR
Tapestry
4.4202 of 5 stars
$82.56
+5.8%
$82.22
-0.4%
+94.2%$17.09B$6.88B23.9318,100Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:COLM) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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