HBI vs. VSTO, BOWL, ATGE, AFYA, TV, OXM, FUN, SGHC, GES, and CNK
Should you be buying Hanesbrands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hanesbrands include Vista Outdoor (VSTO), Bowlero (BOWL), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Afya (AFYA), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Oxford Industries (OXM), Cedar Fair (FUN), Super Group (SGHC), Guess? (GES), and Cinemark (CNK). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Hanesbrands (NYSE:HBI) and Vista Outdoor (NYSE:VSTO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability and dividends.
Hanesbrands currently has a consensus target price of $4.90, indicating a potential downside of 12.42%. Vista Outdoor has a consensus target price of $32.33, indicating a potential downside of 2.40%. Given Vista Outdoor's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Vista Outdoor is more favorable than Hanesbrands.
Hanesbrands received 373 more outperform votes than Vista Outdoor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.93% of users gave Hanesbrands an outperform vote while only 57.29% of users gave Vista Outdoor an outperform vote.
Hanesbrands has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vista Outdoor has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Vista Outdoor had 12 more articles in the media than Hanesbrands. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Vista Outdoor and 3 mentions for Hanesbrands. Hanesbrands' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Vista Outdoor's score of 0.52 indicating that Hanesbrands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hanesbrands has a net margin of -0.31% compared to Vista Outdoor's net margin of -12.17%. Vista Outdoor's return on equity of 20.00% beat Hanesbrands' return on equity.
80.3% of Hanesbrands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.5% of Vista Outdoor shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Hanesbrands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Vista Outdoor shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Vista Outdoor has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hanesbrands. Hanesbrands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vista Outdoor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Vista Outdoor beats Hanesbrands on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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