CRI vs. PVH, VFC, COLM, HBI, OXM, GIII, MOV, VRA, FOSL, and RL
Should you be buying Carter's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carter's include PVH (PVH), V.F. (VFC), Columbia Sportswear (COLM), Hanesbrands (HBI), Oxford Industries (OXM), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), Movado Group (MOV), Vera Bradley (VRA), Fossil Group (FOSL), and Ralph Lauren (RL). These companies are all part of the "apparel accessories & luxury goods" industry.
Carter's (NYSE:CRI) and PVH (NYSE:PVH) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
Carter's currently has a consensus price target of $73.80, indicating a potential upside of 7.89%. PVH has a consensus price target of $128.50, indicating a potential upside of 7.07%. Given Carter's' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Carter's is more favorable than PVH.
Carter's pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. PVH pays an annual dividend of $0.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Carter's pays out 50.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PVH pays out 1.4% 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.
97.3% of PVH shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Carter's shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of PVH shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
PVH received 615 more outperform votes than Carter's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.03% of users gave PVH an outperform vote while only 59.85% of users gave Carter's an outperform vote.
In the previous week, PVH had 16 more articles in the media than Carter's. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for PVH and 3 mentions for Carter's. Carter's' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat PVH's score of 0.40 indicating that Carter's is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Carter's has a net margin of 8.06% compared to PVH's net margin of 7.20%. Carter's' return on equity of 28.55% beat PVH's return on equity.
Carter's has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PVH has a beta of 2.24, indicating that its share price is 124% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PVH has higher revenue and earnings than Carter's. Carter's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PVH, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
PVH beats Carter's on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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