DBI vs. SCVL, CAL, GCO, ZUMZ, CTRN, PLCE, CATO, TLYS, TJX, and ROST
Should you be buying Designer Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Designer Brands include Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Caleres (CAL), Genesco (GCO), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Citi Trends (CTRN), Children's Place (PLCE), Cato (CATO), Tilly's (TLYS), TJX Companies (TJX), and Ross Stores (ROST). These companies are all part of the "apparel retail" industry.
Designer Brands vs. Its Competitors
Designer Brands (NYSE:DBI) and Shoe Carnival (NASDAQ:SCVL) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and earnings.
Designer Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Shoe Carnival pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Designer Brands pays out -29.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shoe Carnival pays out 25.1% 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. Shoe Carnival has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Designer Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
88.8% of Designer Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.1% of Shoe Carnival shares are owned by institutional investors. 52.9% of Designer Brands shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 35.5% of Shoe Carnival shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Shoe Carnival has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Designer Brands. Designer Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shoe Carnival, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Designer Brands currently has a consensus target price of $3.50, suggesting a potential upside of 10.24%. Shoe Carnival has a consensus target price of $51.00, suggesting a potential upside of 146.33%. Given Shoe Carnival's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Shoe Carnival is more favorable than Designer Brands.
In the previous week, Designer Brands had 6 more articles in the media than Shoe Carnival. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Designer Brands and 2 mentions for Shoe Carnival. Shoe Carnival's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Designer Brands' score of -0.09 indicating that Shoe Carnival is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Shoe Carnival has a net margin of 5.58% compared to Designer Brands' net margin of -0.97%. Shoe Carnival's return on equity of 10.43% beat Designer Brands' return on equity.
Designer Brands has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shoe Carnival has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Shoe Carnival beats Designer Brands on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:DBI) was last updated on 8/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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