FL vs. ANF, AEO, BKE, CAL, GES, SCVL, ZUMZ, GCO, CTRN, and DBI
Should you be buying Foot Locker stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foot Locker include Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Buckle (BKE), Caleres (CAL), Guess? (GES), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Genesco (GCO), Citi Trends (CTRN), and Designer Brands (DBI). These companies are all part of the "apparel retail" industry.
Foot Locker vs.
Foot Locker (NYSE:FL) and Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Foot Locker received 261 more outperform votes than Abercrombie & Fitch when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.79% of users gave Foot Locker an outperform vote while only 59.73% of users gave Abercrombie & Fitch an outperform vote.
Abercrombie & Fitch has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Foot Locker. Abercrombie & Fitch is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Foot Locker, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Foot Locker has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Abercrombie & Fitch has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Abercrombie & Fitch had 8 more articles in the media than Foot Locker. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Abercrombie & Fitch and 5 mentions for Foot Locker. Abercrombie & Fitch's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Foot Locker's score of 0.99 indicating that Abercrombie & Fitch is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Abercrombie & Fitch has a net margin of 11.16% compared to Foot Locker's net margin of -5.24%. Abercrombie & Fitch's return on equity of 46.50% beat Foot Locker's return on equity.
Foot Locker presently has a consensus target price of $21.38, suggesting a potential upside of 67.12%. Abercrombie & Fitch has a consensus target price of $127.25, suggesting a potential upside of 83.17%. Given Abercrombie & Fitch's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Abercrombie & Fitch is more favorable than Foot Locker.
Foot Locker pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.5%. Abercrombie & Fitch pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Foot Locker pays out 1,230.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Abercrombie & Fitch pays out 7.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Abercrombie & Fitch beats Foot Locker on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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