CATO vs. ZUMZ, GCO, CTRN, TLYS, PLCE, EXPR, TJX, ROST, ANF, and GPS
Should you be buying Cato stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cato include Zumiez (ZUMZ), Genesco (GCO), Citi Trends (CTRN), Tilly's (TLYS), Children's Place (PLCE), Express (EXPR), TJX Companies (TJX), Ross Stores (ROST), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), and GAP (GPS). These companies are all part of the "apparel retail" industry.
Zumiez (NASDAQ:ZUMZ) and Cato (NYSE:CATO) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking and dividends.
Zumiez received 401 more outperform votes than Cato when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.79% of users gave Cato an outperform vote while only 47.96% of users gave Zumiez an outperform vote.
Cato has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Zumiez. Cato is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zumiez, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
95.5% of Zumiez shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.1% of Cato shares are held by institutional investors. 20.3% of Zumiez shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of Cato 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.
Zumiez has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cato has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Zumiez currently has a consensus price target of $16.00, suggesting a potential downside of 14.80%. Given Cato's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Zumiez is more favorable than Cato.
Cato has a net margin of -2.51% compared to Cato's net margin of -7.15%. Cato's return on equity of -5.70% beat Zumiez's return on equity.
In the previous week, Zumiez and Zumiez both had 5 articles in the media. Cato's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Zumiez's score of 0.36 indicating that Zumiez is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Zumiez beats Cato on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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