Amer Sports, Inc. vs KONTOOR BRANDS, INC., two Apparel stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Kontoor Brands owns Wrangler and Lee, mature denim labels it runs for cash, and the numbers show a business squeezed hard: 44.76% return on equity, though lifted by heavy leverage at 1.87 debt to equity. Amer Sports, carrying Arc'teryx and Salomon, earns just 7.57% on equity but owes nothing. The market's verdict is lopsided, 44.36 times earnings for Amer against 16.87 for Kontoor. Kontoor also hands back 2.51% in dividends and yields 8.57% in free cash flow, dwarfing Amer's 2.7%. Amer is priced for what its brands might become; Kontoor is priced for what its denim already delivers, debt and all.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | AS | KTB |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $34.84 | $85.64 |
| Market cap | $19.4B | $4.8B |
| Sector | Apparel | Apparel |
| Stage | Growth | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +18.2% |
| P/E | 45.3 | 17.3 |
| P/B | 3.33 | 7.75 |
| P/S | 2.95 | 1.43 |
| EV/EBITDA | 26.7 | 14.4 |
| Revenue growth | +26.3% | +38.7% |
| Gross margin | 57.7% | — |
| Operating margin | 10.8% | 14.7% |
| Net margin | 6.7% | 8.3% |
| Return on equity | 7.6% | 44.8% |
| Return on assets | 4.4% | 10.4% |
| Return on invested capital | 7.8% | 16.8% |
| FCF yield | 2.6% | 8.3% |
| Dividend yield | — | 2.4% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 1.87 |
| Current ratio | 1.50 | 1.87 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.60 | 3.18 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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