Movado Group (MOV) Competitors

Carter's (NYSE:CRI) and Movado Group (NYSE:MOV) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.

Do analysts recommend CRI or MOV?

Carter's presently has a consensus target price of $36.80, indicating a potential upside of 13.89%. Movado Group has a consensus target price of $36.25, indicating a potential upside of 113.93%. Given Movado Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Movado Group is more favorable than Carter's.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Carter's	3 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.40
Movado Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of CRI or MOV?

72.1% of Movado Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Carter's shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 30.8% of Movado Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility and risk, CRI or MOV?

Carter's has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Movado Group has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CRI or MOV?

Carter's received 183 more outperform votes than Movado Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.78% of users gave Carter's an outperform vote while only 55.64% of users gave Movado Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Carter's	Outperform Votes 395 58.78%	Underperform Votes 277 41.22%
Movado Group	Outperform Votes 212 55.64%	Underperform Votes 169 44.36%

Does the media favor CRI or MOV?

In the previous week, Carter's had 5 more articles in the media than Movado Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Carter's and 8 mentions for Movado Group. Movado Group's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Carter's' score of 0.73 indicating that Movado Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Carter's	4 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	4 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Movado Group	6 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is CRI or MOV more profitable?

Carter's has a net margin of 8.11% compared to Movado Group's net margin of 3.62%. Carter's' return on equity of 27.15% beat Movado Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Carter's	8.11%	27.15%	9.61%
Movado Group	3.62%	5.38%	3.59%

Is CRI or MOV a better dividend stock?

Carter's pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.9%. Movado Group pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Carter's pays out 70.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Movado Group pays out 160.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Carter's has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Carter's is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, CRI or MOV?

Carter's has higher revenue and earnings than Movado Group. Carter's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Movado Group, 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
Carter's	$2.81B	0.42	$232.50M	$4.52	7.15
Movado Group	$653.38M	0.58	$46.71M	$0.87	19.48

Summary

Carter's beats Movado Group on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.