Designer Brands (DBI) Competitors

Caleres (NYSE:CAL) and Designer Brands (NYSE:DBI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and profitability.

Is CAL or DBI more profitable?

Caleres has a net margin of 5.69% compared to Designer Brands' net margin of -0.07%. Caleres' return on equity of 22.71% beat Designer Brands' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Caleres	5.69%	22.71%	7.03%
Designer Brands	-0.07%	3.18%	0.52%

Which has more volatility & risk, CAL or DBI?

Caleres has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Designer Brands has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in CAL or DBI?

98.4% of Caleres shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.8% of Designer Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Caleres shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 63.1% of Designer Brands shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is CAL or DBI a better dividend stock?

Caleres pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Designer Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Caleres pays out 9.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Designer Brands pays out -64.5% 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. Designer Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do analysts recommend CAL or DBI?

Caleres presently has a consensus price target of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.00%. Designer Brands has a consensus price target of $4.75, indicating a potential upside of 64.08%. Given Designer Brands' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Designer Brands is more favorable than Caleres.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Caleres	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Designer Brands	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Which has higher valuation and earnings, CAL or DBI?

Caleres has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Designer Brands. Designer Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Caleres, 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
Caleres	$2.72B	0.19	$171.39M	$3.07	5.01
Designer Brands	$3.01B	0.05	$29.06M	-$0.31	-9.34

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CAL or DBI?

Designer Brands received 261 more outperform votes than Caleres when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.23% of users gave Caleres an outperform vote while only 58.65% of users gave Designer Brands an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Caleres	Outperform Votes 407 62.23%	Underperform Votes 247 37.77%
Designer Brands	Outperform Votes 668 58.65%	Underperform Votes 471 41.35%

Does the media refer more to CAL or DBI?

In the previous week, Caleres and Caleres both had 1 articles in the media. Caleres' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Designer Brands' score of 0.00 indicating that Caleres is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Caleres	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Designer Brands	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

Caleres beats Designer Brands on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.