WEYS vs. GPC, POOL, LKQ, CRI, CAL, RCKY, NKE, SKX, BIRK, and WWW
Should you be buying Weyco Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Weyco Group include Genuine Parts (GPC), Pool (POOL), LKQ (LKQ), Carter's (CRI), Caleres (CAL), Rocky Brands (RCKY), NIKE (NKE), Skechers U.S.A. (SKX), Birkenstock (BIRK), and Wolverine World Wide (WWW).
Weyco Group vs. Its Competitors
Genuine Parts (NYSE:GPC) and Weyco Group (NASDAQ:WEYS) are both distributors companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Genuine Parts has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Weyco Group has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
78.8% of Genuine Parts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.6% of Weyco Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Genuine Parts shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 35.5% of Weyco Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Genuine Parts currently has a consensus target price of $137.86, suggesting a potential upside of 0.04%. Given Genuine Parts' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Genuine Parts is more favorable than Weyco Group.
Weyco Group has a net margin of 9.20% compared to Genuine Parts' net margin of 3.40%. Genuine Parts' return on equity of 22.41% beat Weyco Group's return on equity.
Genuine Parts has higher revenue and earnings than Weyco Group. Weyco Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genuine Parts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Genuine Parts pays an annual dividend of $4.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Weyco Group pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Genuine Parts pays out 70.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Weyco Group pays out 40.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Genuine Parts has increased its dividend for 70 consecutive years and Weyco Group has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Weyco Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Genuine Parts had 12 more articles in the media than Weyco Group. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Genuine Parts and 2 mentions for Weyco Group. Weyco Group's average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat Genuine Parts' score of 1.66 indicating that Weyco Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Genuine Parts beats Weyco Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:WEYS) was last updated on 9/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff