Citi Trends (CTRN) Competitors

Caleres (NYSE:CAL) and Citi Trends (NASDAQ:CTRN) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and institutional ownership.

Is CAL or CTRN more profitable?

Caleres has a net margin of 5.69% compared to Citi Trends' net margin of -3.36%. Caleres' return on equity of 22.71% beat Citi Trends' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Caleres	5.69%	22.71%	7.03%
Citi Trends	-3.36%	-14.43%	-4.23%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CAL or CTRN?

Caleres received 127 more outperform votes than Citi Trends when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.23% of users gave Caleres an outperform vote while only 54.58% of users gave Citi Trends an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Caleres	Outperform Votes 407 62.23%	Underperform Votes 247 37.77%
Citi Trends	Outperform Votes 280 54.58%	Underperform Votes 233 45.42%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of CAL or CTRN?

98.4% of Caleres shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Caleres shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Citi Trends shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk and volatility, CAL or CTRN?

Caleres has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citi Trends has a beta of 2.02, meaning that its stock price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts rate CAL or CTRN?

Caleres presently has a consensus price target of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.93%. Citi Trends has a consensus price target of $33.33, suggesting a potential upside of 51.76%. Given Citi Trends' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Citi Trends is more favorable than Caleres.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Caleres	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Citi Trends	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, CAL or CTRN?

Caleres has higher revenue and earnings than Citi Trends. Citi Trends is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Caleres, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Caleres	$2.72B	0.19	$171.39M	$3.07	5.01
Citi Trends	$753.08M	0.24	-$11.98M	-$5.20	-4.22

Is CAL or CTRN a better dividend stock?

Caleres pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Citi Trends pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Caleres pays out 9.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Citi Trends pays out -6.2% 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.

Does the media refer more to CAL or CTRN?

In the previous week, Citi Trends had 2 more articles in the media than Caleres. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Citi Trends and 2 mentions for Caleres. Citi Trends' average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Caleres' score of 1.28 indicating that Citi Trends is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Caleres	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Citi Trends	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Summary

Caleres beats Citi Trends on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.