CBK vs. CATO, BBWI, FATBB, SECO, WMK, JFBR, BQ, VINO, ONFO, and JWEL
Should you be buying Christopher & Banks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Christopher & Banks include Cato (CATO), Bath & Body Works (BBWI), FAT Brands (FATBB), Secoo (SECO), Weis Markets (WMK), Jeffs' Brands (JFBR), Boqii (BQ), Gaucho Group (VINO), Onfolio (ONFO), and Jowell Global (JWEL). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Cato (NYSE:CATO) and Christopher & Banks (NYSE:CBK) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
61.1% of Cato shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.1% of Christopher & Banks shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of Cato shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of Christopher & Banks shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cato has a net margin of -3.38% compared to Cato's net margin of -9.41%. Christopher & Banks' return on equity of -11.11% beat Cato's return on equity.
Cato has higher revenue and earnings than Christopher & Banks. Cato is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Christopher & Banks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Christopher & Banks received 91 more outperform votes than Cato when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.01% of users gave Christopher & Banks an outperform vote while only 59.66% of users gave Cato an outperform vote.
Cato has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Christopher & Banks has a beta of 2.66, suggesting that its share price is 166% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cato had 5 more articles in the media than Christopher & Banks. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Cato and 0 mentions for Christopher & Banks. Cato's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Christopher & Banks' score of -0.37 indicating that Christopher & Banks is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Cato and Christopher & Banks tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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