Urban Outfitters (URBN) Competitors

Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) and Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and media sentiment.

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of ANF or URBN?

77.6% of Urban Outfitters shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Abercrombie & Fitch shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 31.6% of Urban Outfitters shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts prefer ANF or URBN?

Abercrombie & Fitch presently has a consensus price target of $111.38, suggesting a potential upside of 37.26%. Urban Outfitters has a consensus price target of $74.09, suggesting a potential upside of 4.90%. Given Abercrombie & Fitch's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Abercrombie & Fitch is more favorable than Urban Outfitters.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Abercrombie & Fitch	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Urban Outfitters	1 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.42

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in ANF or URBN?

Urban Outfitters received 59 more outperform votes than Abercrombie & Fitch when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.77% of users gave Abercrombie & Fitch an outperform vote while only 59.19% of users gave Urban Outfitters an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Abercrombie & Fitch	Outperform Votes 1239 59.77%	Underperform Votes 834 40.23%
Urban Outfitters	Outperform Votes 1298 59.19%	Underperform Votes 895 40.81%

Is ANF or URBN more profitable?

Abercrombie & Fitch has a net margin of 11.16% compared to Urban Outfitters' net margin of 6.11%. Abercrombie & Fitch's return on equity of 46.50% beat Urban Outfitters' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Abercrombie & Fitch	11.16%	46.50%	17.53%
Urban Outfitters	6.11%	15.86%	8.25%

Which has higher earnings and valuation, ANF or URBN?

Abercrombie & Fitch has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Urban Outfitters. Abercrombie & Fitch is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Urban Outfitters, 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
Abercrombie & Fitch	$5.03B	0.77	$328.12M	$10.16	7.99
Urban Outfitters	$5.68B	1.15	$287.67M	$4.78	14.78

Which has more risk & volatility, ANF or URBN?

Abercrombie & Fitch has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urban Outfitters has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to ANF or URBN?

In the previous week, Urban Outfitters had 20 more articles in the media than Abercrombie & Fitch. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Urban Outfitters and 4 mentions for Abercrombie & Fitch. Urban Outfitters' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Abercrombie & Fitch's score of 0.59 indicating that Urban Outfitters is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Abercrombie & Fitch	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Urban Outfitters	7 Very Positive mention(s)	5 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Abercrombie & Fitch beats Urban Outfitters on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.