WWW vs. SHOO, CAL, RCKY, SWBI, SBGI, RGR, AMC, BWMX, MBUU, and GTN.A
Should you be buying Wolverine World Wide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wolverine World Wide include Steven Madden (SHOO), Caleres (CAL), Rocky Brands (RCKY), Smith & Wesson Brands (SWBI), Sinclair (SBGI), Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR), AMC Entertainment (AMC), Betterware de México, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (BWMX), Malibu Boats (MBUU), and Gray Television (GTN.A). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Wolverine World Wide (NYSE:WWW) and Steven Madden (NASDAQ:SHOO) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and community ranking.
Wolverine World Wide presently has a consensus price target of $10.63, suggesting a potential downside of 1.53%. Steven Madden has a consensus price target of $41.38, suggesting a potential upside of 0.79%. Given Steven Madden's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Steven Madden is more favorable than Wolverine World Wide.
Steven Madden received 295 more outperform votes than Wolverine World Wide when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.19% of users gave Steven Madden an outperform vote while only 50.98% of users gave Wolverine World Wide an outperform vote.
Wolverine World Wide pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Steven Madden pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Wolverine World Wide pays out -78.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Steven Madden pays out 36.5% 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 has a beta of 1.75, suggesting that its stock price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Steven Madden has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Steven Madden has a net margin of 8.67% compared to Wolverine World Wide's net margin of -1.77%. Steven Madden's return on equity of 21.61% beat Wolverine World Wide's return on equity.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Steven Madden shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Wolverine World Wide had 5 more articles in the media than Steven Madden. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Wolverine World Wide and 8 mentions for Steven Madden. Steven Madden's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Wolverine World Wide's score of 0.11 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.
Summary
Steven Madden beats Wolverine World Wide on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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