WWW vs. SHOO, NKE, DECK, SKX, CROX, CAL, RCKY, BIRK, PWSC, and HGV
Should you be buying Wolverine World Wide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wolverine World Wide include Steven Madden (SHOO), NIKE (NKE), Deckers Outdoor (DECK), Skechers U.S.A. (SKX), Crocs (CROX), Caleres (CAL), Rocky Brands (RCKY), Birkenstock (BIRK), PowerSchool (PWSC), and Hilton Grand Vacations (HGV).
Wolverine World Wide (NYSE:WWW) and Steven Madden (NASDAQ:SHOO) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Steven Madden received 290 more outperform votes than Wolverine World Wide when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.02% of users gave Steven Madden an outperform vote while only 51.08% of users gave Wolverine World Wide an outperform vote.
Steven Madden has a net margin of 8.65% compared to Wolverine World Wide's net margin of -3.59%. Steven Madden's return on equity of 22.68% beat Wolverine World Wide's return on equity.
Wolverine World Wide pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Steven Madden pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Wolverine World Wide pays out -43.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Steven Madden pays out 34.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Wolverine World Wide is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Wolverine World Wide currently has a consensus target price of $12.44, indicating a potential downside of 14.24%. Steven Madden has a consensus target price of $43.38, indicating a potential downside of 1.47%. Given Steven Madden's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Steven Madden is more favorable than Wolverine World Wide.
In the previous week, Wolverine World Wide had 12 more articles in the media than Steven Madden. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Wolverine World Wide and 11 mentions for Steven Madden. Steven Madden's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Wolverine World Wide's score of 0.24 indicating that Steven Madden is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Steven Madden has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Wolverine World Wide. Wolverine World Wide is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Steven Madden, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
90.3% of Wolverine World Wide shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Steven Madden shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Wolverine World Wide shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Steven Madden shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Wolverine World Wide has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Steven Madden has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Steven Madden beats Wolverine World Wide on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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