PLCE vs. LE, DBI, ZUMZ, GCO, CTRN, TLYS, CATO, EXPR, BKE, and URBN
Should you be buying Children's Place stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Children's Place include Lands' End (LE), Designer Brands (DBI), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Genesco (GCO), Citi Trends (CTRN), Tilly's (TLYS), Cato (CATO), Express (EXPR), Buckle (BKE), and Urban Outfitters (URBN).
Lands' End (NASDAQ:LE) and Children's Place (NASDAQ:PLCE) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Lands' End has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Children's Place. Lands' End is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Children's Place, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lands' End has a beta of 2.86, meaning that its stock price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Children's Place has a beta of 2.05, meaning that its stock price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lands' End presently has a consensus target price of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 39.96%. Children's Place has a consensus target price of $15.33, indicating a potential upside of 25.17%. Given Children's Place's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Lands' End is more favorable than Children's Place.
Lands' End has a net margin of -8.87% compared to Lands' End's net margin of -9.64%. Children's Place's return on equity of -1.70% beat Lands' End's return on equity.
37.5% of Lands' End shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Lands' End shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Children's Place shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Lands' End had 1 more articles in the media than Children's Place. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Lands' End and 4 mentions for Children's Place. Lands' End's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Children's Place's score of 0.35 indicating that Children's Place is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Children's Place received 385 more outperform votes than Lands' End when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.47% of users gave Children's Place an outperform vote while only 57.06% of users gave Lands' End an outperform vote.
Summary
Lands' End beats Children's Place on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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