FL vs. SCVL, DBI, BOOT, SAH, PZZA, BKE, ODP, PLAY, ARHS, and CAKE
Should you be buying Foot Locker stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foot Locker include Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Designer Brands (DBI), Boot Barn (BOOT), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Papa John's International (PZZA), Buckle (BKE), ODP (ODP), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Arhaus (ARHS), and Cheesecake Factory (CAKE). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Shoe Carnival (NASDAQ:SCVL) and Foot Locker (NYSE:FL) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
66.1% of Shoe Carnival shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.5% of Shoe Carnival shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Foot Locker shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Foot Locker received 992 more outperform votes than Shoe Carnival when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.93% of users gave Foot Locker an outperform vote while only 66.44% of users gave Shoe Carnival an outperform vote.
Shoe Carnival has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Foot Locker. Foot Locker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shoe Carnival, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Shoe Carnival has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Foot Locker has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Shoe Carnival has a net margin of 6.24% compared to Shoe Carnival's net margin of -4.04%. Foot Locker's return on equity of 13.17% beat Shoe Carnival's return on equity.
In the previous week, Foot Locker had 5 more articles in the media than Shoe Carnival. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Foot Locker and 1 mentions for Shoe Carnival. Shoe Carnival's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Foot Locker's score of 0.00 indicating that Foot Locker is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Shoe Carnival currently has a consensus price target of $36.50, suggesting a potential upside of 3.28%. Foot Locker has a consensus price target of $24.56, suggesting a potential upside of 3.12%. Given Foot Locker's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Shoe Carnival is more favorable than Foot Locker.
Summary
Shoe Carnival beats Foot Locker on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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