Canada Goose (GOOS) Competitors

Canada Goose (NYSE:GOOS) and Ermenegildo Zegna (NYSE:ZGN) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of GOOS or ZGN?

83.6% of Canada Goose shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.9% of Ermenegildo Zegna shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Canada Goose shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Ermenegildo Zegna shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, GOOS or ZGN?

Ermenegildo Zegna has higher revenue and earnings than Canada Goose. Ermenegildo Zegna is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canada Goose, 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
Canada Goose	$1.32B	0.60	$43.26M	$0.52	15.82
Ermenegildo Zegna	$1.95B	1.65	$131.53M	$0.53	14.83

Which has more volatility and risk, GOOS or ZGN?

Canada Goose has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ermenegildo Zegna has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is GOOS or ZGN more profitable?

Canada Goose has a net margin of 5.47% compared to Ermenegildo Zegna's net margin of 0.00%. Canada Goose's return on equity of 22.49% beat Ermenegildo Zegna's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Canada Goose	5.47%	22.49%	5.99%
Ermenegildo Zegna	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do analysts prefer GOOS or ZGN?

Canada Goose currently has a consensus target price of $10.20, suggesting a potential upside of 24.01%. Ermenegildo Zegna has a consensus target price of $8.70, suggesting a potential upside of 10.67%. Given Canada Goose's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Canada Goose is more favorable than Ermenegildo Zegna.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Canada Goose	2 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.88
Ermenegildo Zegna	1 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in GOOS or ZGN?

Canada Goose received 526 more outperform votes than Ermenegildo Zegna when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.56% of users gave Canada Goose an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave Ermenegildo Zegna an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Canada Goose	Outperform Votes 531 71.56%	Underperform Votes 211 28.44%
Ermenegildo Zegna	Outperform Votes 5 35.71%	Underperform Votes 9 64.29%

Does the media prefer GOOS or ZGN?

In the previous week, Canada Goose had 3 more articles in the media than Ermenegildo Zegna. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Canada Goose and 4 mentions for Ermenegildo Zegna. Ermenegildo Zegna's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Canada Goose's score of 0.58 indicating that Ermenegildo Zegna is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Canada Goose	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Ermenegildo Zegna	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Canada Goose beats Ermenegildo Zegna on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.