FOSL vs. VRA, MOV, RL, TPR, VFC, PVH, COLM, HBI, CRI, and OXM
Should you be buying Fossil Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fossil Group include Vera Bradley (VRA), Movado Group (MOV), Ralph Lauren (RL), Tapestry (TPR), V.F. (VFC), PVH (PVH), Columbia Sportswear (COLM), Hanesbrands (HBI), Carter's (CRI), and Oxford Industries (OXM). These companies are all part of the "apparel accessories & luxury goods" industry.
Vera Bradley (NASDAQ:VRA) and Fossil Group (NASDAQ:FOSL) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
Vera Bradley presently has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 45.77%. Given Fossil Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Vera Bradley is more favorable than Fossil Group.
59.9% of Vera Bradley shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.1% of Fossil Group shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of Vera Bradley shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Fossil Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Vera Bradley has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fossil Group. Fossil Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vera Bradley, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vera Bradley has a beta of 1.91, indicating that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fossil Group has a beta of 2.16, indicating that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Fossil Group had 3 more articles in the media than Vera Bradley. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Fossil Group and 4 mentions for Vera Bradley. Fossil Group's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Vera Bradley's score of 0.32 indicating that Vera Bradley is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fossil Group received 266 more outperform votes than Vera Bradley when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.81% of users gave Vera Bradley an outperform vote while only 54.01% of users gave Fossil Group an outperform vote.
Vera Bradley has a net margin of 0.96% compared to Vera Bradley's net margin of -10.44%. Fossil Group's return on equity of 5.17% beat Vera Bradley's return on equity.
Summary
Vera Bradley beats Fossil Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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