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$13.28 -0.68 (-4.87%)
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ZUMZ vs. SCVL, AEO, BKE, CAL, GCO, GES, CTRN, DBI, PLCE, and CATO

Should you be buying Zumiez stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zumiez include Shoe Carnival (SCVL), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Buckle (BKE), Caleres (CAL), Genesco (GCO), Guess? (GES), Citi Trends (CTRN), Designer Brands (DBI), Children's Place (PLCE), and Cato (CATO). These companies are all part of the "apparel retail" industry.

Zumiez vs. Its Competitors

Zumiez (NASDAQ:ZUMZ) and Shoe Carnival (NASDAQ:SCVL) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.

Zumiez currently has a consensus target price of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 88.25%. Shoe Carnival has a consensus target price of $51.00, suggesting a potential upside of 139.21%. Given Shoe Carnival's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Shoe Carnival is more favorable than Zumiez.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Zumiez
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Shoe Carnival
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Zumiez has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shoe Carnival has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Shoe Carnival had 1 more articles in the media than Zumiez. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Shoe Carnival and 1 mentions for Zumiez. Shoe Carnival's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Zumiez's score of 0.67 indicating that Shoe Carnival is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Zumiez Positive
Shoe Carnival Very Positive

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Zumiez$889.20M0.27-$1.71M$0.011,328.00
Shoe Carnival$1.18B0.49$73.77M$2.398.92

95.5% of Zumiez shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.1% of Shoe Carnival shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.2% of Zumiez shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 35.5% of Shoe Carnival shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Shoe Carnival has a net margin of 5.58% compared to Zumiez's net margin of 0.08%. Shoe Carnival's return on equity of 10.43% beat Zumiez's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Zumiez0.08% 0.23% 0.12%
Shoe Carnival 5.58%10.43%5.92%

Summary

Shoe Carnival beats Zumiez on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ZUMZ vs. The Competition

MetricZumiezRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$248.08M$7.71B$26.21B$9.10B
Dividend YieldN/A2.91%175.53%4.00%
P/E Ratio1,329.3364.9529.0420.27
Price / Sales0.271.258.3298.03
Price / Cash13.0917.2549.4658.16
Price / Book0.772.995.725.49
Net Income-$1.71M$372.42M$869.96M$250.45M
7 Day Performance-5.79%0.41%0.70%4.79%
1 Month Performance9.48%2.76%5.91%7.68%
1 Year Performance-38.38%-6.58%21.04%16.43%

Zumiez Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ZUMZ
Zumiez
2.9741 of 5 stars
$13.28
-4.9%
$25.00
+88.3%
-38.7%$248.08M$889.20M1,329.338,700
SCVL
Shoe Carnival
4.6815 of 5 stars
$18.71
-2.8%
$51.00
+172.6%
-45.2%$511.46M$1.18B7.835,500Positive News
AEO
American Eagle Outfitters
4.6389 of 5 stars
$9.62
-2.6%
$14.70
+52.8%
-53.2%$1.67B$5.33B9.8244,000Gap Down
BKE
Buckle
2.994 of 5 stars
$45.30
-0.6%
$41.00
-9.5%
+21.8%$2.32B$1.22B11.658,000News Coverage
CAL
Caleres
3.4769 of 5 stars
$12.27
-2.2%
$14.00
+14.1%
-56.2%$414.73M$2.72B5.119,400
GCO
Genesco
3.8139 of 5 stars
$19.80
-4.6%
$24.50
+23.7%
-13.5%$213.44M$2.33B-12.6918,000
GES
Guess?
2.3172 of 5 stars
$12.08
-0.3%
$12.50
+3.5%
-43.5%$628.40M$3.00B-50.3313,000
CTRN
Citi Trends
0.5144 of 5 stars
$33.39
+0.5%
$32.50
-2.7%
+56.7%$276.80M$753.08M-7.154,600
DBI
Designer Brands
3.9239 of 5 stars
$2.40
-2.4%
$3.50
+45.8%
-56.5%$117.17M$3.01B-3.5314,000
PLCE
Children's Place
0.5398 of 5 stars
$4.43
flat
$6.00
+35.4%
-48.0%$98.21M$1.39B-1.427,900News Coverage
CATO
Cato
0.7677 of 5 stars
$2.78
+0.7%
N/A-41.9%$54.88M$649.81M-2.067,000

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This page (NASDAQ:ZUMZ) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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