CTRN vs. TLYS, DLTH, ZUMZ, VNCE, CURV, AKA, DXLG, BARK, VRA, and DTC
Should you be buying Citi Trends stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citi Trends include Tilly's (TLYS), Duluth (DLTH), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Vince (VNCE), Torrid (CURV), a.k.a. Brands (AKA), Destination XL Group (DXLG), BARK (BARK), Vera Bradley (VRA), and Solo Brands (DTC).
Tilly's (NYSE:TLYS) and Citi Trends (NASDAQ:CTRN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
76.4% of Tilly's shares are held by institutional investors. 28.0% of Tilly's shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Citi Trends shares are held by company 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.
Tilly's presently has a consensus price target of $7.88, indicating a potential upside of 32.58%. Citi Trends has a consensus price target of $27.67, indicating a potential upside of 20.66%. Given Citi Trends' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Tilly's is more favorable than Citi Trends.
Tilly's received 191 more outperform votes than Citi Trends when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.56% of users gave Tilly's an outperform vote while only 55.44% of users gave Citi Trends an outperform vote.
Citi Trends has a net margin of -1.60% compared to Citi Trends' net margin of -5.54%. Tilly's' return on equity of -6.74% beat Citi Trends' return on equity.
Citi Trends has higher revenue and earnings than Tilly's. Citi Trends is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tilly's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tilly's has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citi Trends has a beta of 2.43, suggesting that its share price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Citi Trends had 9 more articles in the media than Tilly's. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Citi Trends and 3 mentions for Tilly's. Tilly's' average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Citi Trends' score of 0.00 indicating that Citi Trends is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Citi Trends beats Tilly's on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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