FOSL vs. CTRN, DIBS, RENT, THCH, CONN, BGFV, VRA, CATO, TAST, and BIRD
Should you be buying Fossil Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fossil Group include Citi Trends (CTRN), 1stdibs.Com (DIBS), Rent the Runway (RENT), TH International (THCH), Conn's (CONN), Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV), Vera Bradley (VRA), Cato (CATO), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), and Allbirds (BIRD). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Fossil Group vs.
Citi Trends (NASDAQ:CTRN) and Fossil Group (NASDAQ:FOSL) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
In the previous week, Citi Trends had 12 more articles in the media than Fossil Group. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Citi Trends and 3 mentions for Fossil Group. Fossil Group's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Citi Trends' score of 0.14 indicating that Fossil Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
94.2% of Citi Trends shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.9% of Fossil Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Citi Trends shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of Fossil Group shares are owned by company 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 net margin of 7.41% compared to Fossil Group's net margin of -2.63%. Citi Trends' return on equity of 6.75% beat Fossil Group's return on equity.
Citi Trends has a beta of 2.28, suggesting that its stock price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fossil Group has a beta of 2.07, suggesting that its stock price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Citi Trends has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fossil Group. Fossil Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citi Trends, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fossil Group received 356 more outperform votes than Citi Trends when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.44% of users gave Citi Trends an outperform vote while only 54.25% of users gave Fossil Group an outperform vote.
Citi Trends currently has a consensus target price of $29.50, indicating a potential upside of 60.68%. Given Citi Trends' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Citi Trends is more favorable than Fossil Group.
Summary
Citi Trends beats Fossil Group on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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