FL vs. DBI, SCVL, BOOT, TGLS, ODP, GOOS, PLAY, BH.A, CBRL, and CAKE
Should you be buying Foot Locker stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foot Locker include Designer Brands (DBI), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Boot Barn (BOOT), Tecnoglass (TGLS), ODP (ODP), Canada Goose (GOOS), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Biglari (BH.A), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), and Cheesecake Factory (CAKE). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Foot Locker vs.
Designer Brands (NYSE:DBI) and Foot Locker (NYSE:FL) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.
Foot Locker received 804 more outperform votes than Designer Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.67% of users gave Foot Locker an outperform vote while only 60.18% of users gave Designer Brands an outperform vote.
Foot Locker has higher revenue and earnings than Designer Brands. Designer Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Foot Locker, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Designer Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Foot Locker pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. Designer Brands pays out 9.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Foot Locker pays out 103.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Foot Locker has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Foot Locker is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Designer Brands has a net margin of 4.40% compared to Designer Brands' net margin of 1.76%. Foot Locker's return on equity of 24.35% beat Designer Brands' return on equity.
82.9% of Designer Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 41.7% of Designer Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Foot Locker shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Designer Brands has a beta of 2.12, suggesting that its stock price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Foot Locker has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Designer Brands currently has a consensus target price of $14.33, suggesting a potential upside of 13.31%. Foot Locker has a consensus target price of $27.83, suggesting a potential upside of 56.72%. Given Designer Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Foot Locker is more favorable than Designer Brands.
In the previous week, Foot Locker had 3 more articles in the media than Designer Brands. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Foot Locker and 7 mentions for Designer Brands. Designer Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Foot Locker's score of -0.45 indicating that Foot Locker is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Foot Locker beats Designer Brands on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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