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CTRN vs. GES, SCVL, CAL, GCO, ZUMZ, DBI, PLCE, CATO, TLYS, and TJX

Should you be buying Citi Trends stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citi Trends include Guess? (GES), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Caleres (CAL), Genesco (GCO), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Designer Brands (DBI), Children's Place (PLCE), Cato (CATO), Tilly's (TLYS), and TJX Companies (TJX). These companies are all part of the "apparel retail" industry.

Citi Trends vs. Its Competitors

Citi Trends (NASDAQ:CTRN) and Guess? (NYSE:GES) are both small-cap apparel retail companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and dividends.

Citi Trends currently has a consensus price target of $39.50, suggesting a potential upside of 25.22%. Guess? has a consensus price target of $16.75, suggesting a potential downside of 0.27%. Given Citi Trends' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Citi Trends is more favorable than Guess?.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Citi Trends
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Guess?
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

61.7% of Guess? shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Citi Trends shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 33.7% of Guess? shares are held 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.

Citi Trends has a beta of 2.07, suggesting that its share price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guess? has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Citi Trends pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Guess? pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Citi Trends pays out -16.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Guess? pays out 562.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Guess? has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Guess? is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Citi Trends$782.72M0.33-$43.17M-$2.00-15.77
Guess?$3.00B0.29$60.42M$0.16104.97

Guess? has a net margin of 1.01% compared to Citi Trends' net margin of -2.13%. Guess?'s return on equity of 16.44% beat Citi Trends' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Citi Trends-2.13% -21.25% -5.42%
Guess? 1.01%16.44%3.05%

In the previous week, Citi Trends had 2 more articles in the media than Guess?. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Citi Trends and 1 mentions for Guess?. Citi Trends' average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Guess?'s score of 0.45 indicating that Citi Trends is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Citi Trends
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Guess?
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Guess? beats Citi Trends on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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CTRN vs. The Competition

MetricCiti TrendsRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$262.26M$7.92B$27.40B$10.40B
Dividend YieldN/A2.82%171.15%4.58%
P/E Ratio-15.7922.8120.4226.62
Price / Sales0.331.208.6592.34
Price / CashN/A18.3163.9861.85
Price / Book2.313.595.086.45
Net Income-$43.17M$359.92M$871.31M$271.39M
7 Day Performance-4.38%-1.94%-0.46%3.06%
1 Month Performance-3.21%5.64%4.55%7.62%
1 Year Performance71.63%-0.12%19.06%30.20%

Citi Trends Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CTRN
Citi Trends
1.9323 of 5 stars
$31.55
+0.6%
$39.50
+25.2%
+70.6%$262.26M$782.72M-15.794,600Positive News
GES
Guess?
2.9627 of 5 stars
$16.72
+0.2%
$16.75
+0.2%
-13.2%$868.73M$3.00B104.4813,000
SCVL
Shoe Carnival
4.1222 of 5 stars
$23.56
+1.5%
N/A-50.2%$635.60M$1.20B10.385,500Dividend Announcement
CAL
Caleres
3.3737 of 5 stars
$15.60
+4.8%
$14.00
-10.2%
-56.8%$503.92M$2.72B8.919,400
GCO
Genesco
4.1292 of 5 stars
$33.49
+0.9%
$30.00
-10.4%
+19.5%$358.30M$2.33B-13.7218,000Positive News
ZUMZ
Zumiez
1.4905 of 5 stars
$20.03
-0.9%
$18.00
-10.1%
-10.2%$346.84M$889.20M-2,001.008,700
DBI
Designer Brands
4.1792 of 5 stars
$4.43
-2.5%
$4.00
-9.6%
-42.3%$221.66M$3.01B-6.3214,000Dividend Announcement
PLCE
Children's Place
0.567 of 5 stars
$7.19
+3.0%
$7.00
-2.6%
-62.5%$154.73M$1.39B-8.367,900
CATO
Cato
0.9126 of 5 stars
$4.56
-1.3%
N/A-5.4%$91.14M$649.81M-4.517,000
TLYS
Tilly's
1.8088 of 5 stars
$1.99
+5.9%
$2.25
+13.1%
-58.7%$57.29M$569.45M-1.315,619
TJX
TJX Companies
4.4774 of 5 stars
$141.01
+1.1%
$147.58
+4.7%
+19.3%$155.23B$56.36B32.12364,000Positive News
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This page (NASDAQ:CTRN) was last updated on 9/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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