ESCA vs. AOUT, CLAR, JOUT, TSQ, QSG, LVO, RCKY, WW, FLXS, and VIRC
Should you be buying Escalade stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Escalade include American Outdoor Brands (AOUT), Clarus (CLAR), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), Townsquare Media (TSQ), QuantaSing Group (QSG), LiveOne (LVO), Rocky Brands (RCKY), WW International (WW), Flexsteel Industries (FLXS), and Virco Mfg. (VIRC). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Escalade (NASDAQ:ESCA) and American Outdoor Brands (NASDAQ:AOUT) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Escalade had 12 more articles in the media than American Outdoor Brands. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Escalade and 1 mentions for American Outdoor Brands. American Outdoor Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Escalade's score of 0.28 indicating that American Outdoor Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
American Outdoor Brands has a consensus target price of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 47.73%. Given American Outdoor Brands' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe American Outdoor Brands is more favorable than Escalade.
65.2% of Escalade shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of American Outdoor Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.8% of Escalade shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of American Outdoor Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Escalade has higher revenue and earnings than American Outdoor Brands. American Outdoor Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Escalade, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Escalade received 205 more outperform votes than American Outdoor Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.74% of users gave Escalade an outperform vote while only 57.69% of users gave American Outdoor Brands an outperform vote.
Escalade has a net margin of 3.58% compared to American Outdoor Brands' net margin of -5.47%. Escalade's return on equity of 6.10% beat American Outdoor Brands' return on equity.
Escalade has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Outdoor Brands has a beta of 0.27, suggesting that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Escalade beats American Outdoor Brands on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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