Steven Madden (SHOO) Competitors

Crocs (NASDAQ:CROX) and Steven Madden (NASDAQ:SHOO) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Do institutionals and insiders believe in CROX or SHOO?

93.4% of Crocs shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Steven Madden shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Crocs shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Steven Madden shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, CROX or SHOO?

Crocs has higher revenue and earnings than Steven Madden. Crocs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Steven Madden, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Crocs	$4.10B	1.44	$950.07M	$16.32	6.44
Steven Madden	$2.28B	0.83	$171.55M	$2.32	11.19

Do analysts rate CROX or SHOO?

Crocs presently has a consensus target price of $139.79, suggesting a potential upside of 32.94%. Steven Madden has a consensus target price of $28.50, suggesting a potential upside of 9.78%. Given Crocs' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Crocs is more favorable than Steven Madden.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Crocs	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	12 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.86
Steven Madden	0 Sell rating(s)	8 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is CROX or SHOO more profitable?

Crocs has a net margin of 23.16% compared to Steven Madden's net margin of 7.68%. Crocs' return on equity of 46.27% beat Steven Madden's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Crocs	23.16%	46.27%	16.55%
Steven Madden	7.68%	23.41%	14.45%

Which has more volatility and risk, CROX or SHOO?

Crocs has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Steven Madden has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CROX or SHOO?

Steven Madden received 173 more outperform votes than Crocs when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.01% of users gave Steven Madden an outperform vote while only 60.34% of users gave Crocs an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Crocs	Outperform Votes 569 60.34%	Underperform Votes 374 39.66%
Steven Madden	Outperform Votes 742 68.01%	Underperform Votes 349 31.99%

Does the media refer more to CROX or SHOO?

In the previous week, Steven Madden had 16 more articles in the media than Crocs. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Steven Madden and 10 mentions for Crocs. Crocs' average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Steven Madden's score of 0.29 indicating that Crocs is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Crocs	6 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Steven Madden	6 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	10 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

Crocs beats Steven Madden on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.