JOUT vs. CLAR, ESCA, PTON, VTRU, MCS, FUBO, REAL, NRDY, LIND, and AMCX
Should you be buying Johnson Outdoors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Johnson Outdoors include Clarus (CLAR), Escalade (ESCA), Peloton Interactive (PTON), Vitru (VTRU), Marcus (MCS), fuboTV (FUBO), RealReal (REAL), Nerdy (NRDY), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), and AMC Networks (AMCX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Clarus (NASDAQ:CLAR) and Johnson Outdoors (NASDAQ:JOUT) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and valuation.
Clarus has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Johnson Outdoors has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
90.3% of Clarus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.1% of Johnson Outdoors shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.4% of Clarus shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 27.7% of Johnson Outdoors shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Clarus received 50 more outperform votes than Johnson Outdoors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.48% of users gave Johnson Outdoors an outperform vote while only 64.37% of users gave Clarus an outperform vote.
Clarus pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Johnson Outdoors pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Clarus pays out 38.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Johnson Outdoors pays out 77.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Johnson Outdoors has raised its dividend for 9 consecutive years. Johnson Outdoors is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Clarus has a net margin of 3.08% compared to Clarus' net margin of 2.82%. Clarus' return on equity of 3.47% beat Johnson Outdoors' return on equity.
In the previous week, Johnson Outdoors had 9 more articles in the media than Clarus. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Johnson Outdoors and 16 mentions for Clarus. Johnson Outdoors' average media sentiment score of 0.16 beat Clarus' score of 0.08 indicating that Clarus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clarus presently has a consensus price target of $9.75, suggesting a potential upside of 33.38%. Given Johnson Outdoors' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Clarus is more favorable than Johnson Outdoors.
Johnson Outdoors has higher revenue and earnings than Clarus. Johnson Outdoors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clarus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Clarus and Johnson Outdoors tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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