Genesco (GCO) Competitors

Guess? (NYSE:GES) and Genesco (NYSE:GCO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.

Which has more risk and volatility, GES or GCO?

Guess? has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genesco has a beta of 2.14, meaning that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in GES or GCO?

Guess? received 21 more outperform votes than Genesco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.91% of users gave Genesco an outperform vote while only 53.59% of users gave Guess? an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Guess?	Outperform Votes 478 53.59%	Underperform Votes 414 46.41%
Genesco	Outperform Votes 457 56.91%	Underperform Votes 346 43.09%

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, GES or GCO?

Guess? has higher revenue and earnings than Genesco. Genesco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Guess?, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Guess?	$3.00B	0.19	$198.20M	$0.64	17.27
Genesco	$2.33B	0.10	-$16.83M	-$1.77	-11.85

Do analysts rate GES or GCO?

Guess? currently has a consensus target price of $12.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.07%. Genesco has a consensus target price of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.38%. Given Genesco's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Genesco is more favorable than Guess?.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Guess?	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Genesco	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is GES or GCO more profitable?

Guess? has a net margin of 3.19% compared to Genesco's net margin of -1.13%. Guess?'s return on equity of 23.29% beat Genesco's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Guess?	3.19%	23.29%	5.05%
Genesco	-1.13%	0.56%	0.22%

Does the media prefer GES or GCO?

In the previous week, Genesco had 1 more articles in the media than Guess?. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Genesco and 7 mentions for Guess?. Guess?'s average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Genesco's score of 0.72 indicating that Guess? is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Guess?	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Genesco	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of GES or GCO?

61.7% of Guess? shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Genesco shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.3% of Guess? shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Genesco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Guess? beats Genesco on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.