FL vs. URBN, ANF, BKE, AEO, GES, SCVL, CAL, CTRN, ZUMZ, and GCO
Should you be buying Foot Locker stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foot Locker include Urban Outfitters (URBN), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), Buckle (BKE), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Guess? (GES), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Caleres (CAL), Citi Trends (CTRN), Zumiez (ZUMZ), and Genesco (GCO). These companies are all part of the "apparel retail" industry.
Foot Locker vs. Its Competitors
Foot Locker (NYSE:FL) and Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and dividends.
Foot Locker has a beta of 1.73, indicating that its share price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urban Outfitters has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Urban Outfitters has a net margin of 7.91% compared to Foot Locker's net margin of -4.54%. Urban Outfitters' return on equity of 17.98% beat Foot Locker's return on equity.
Urban Outfitters has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Foot Locker. Foot Locker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Urban Outfitters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
77.6% of Urban Outfitters shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Foot Locker shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 31.8% of Urban Outfitters shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Foot Locker currently has a consensus price target of $21.20, suggesting a potential downside of 13.58%. Urban Outfitters has a consensus price target of $74.09, suggesting a potential upside of 2.14%. Given Urban Outfitters' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Urban Outfitters is more favorable than Foot Locker.
In the previous week, Urban Outfitters had 6 more articles in the media than Foot Locker. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Urban Outfitters and 2 mentions for Foot Locker. Foot Locker's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Urban Outfitters' score of 0.43 indicating that Foot Locker is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Urban Outfitters beats Foot Locker on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:FL) was last updated on 7/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
