Amer Sports, Inc. vs RALPH LAUREN CORPORATION, two Apparel stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where AS and RL diverge most: on debt / equity, AS reads 0.00 and RL reads 0.44; on return on equity, AS reads 7.6% and RL reads 33.1%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What AS's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). What RL's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | AS | RL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $34.84 | $395.32 |
| Market cap | $19.4B | $24.6B |
| Sector | Apparel | Apparel |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +22.5% |
| P/E | 45.3 | 26.2 |
| P/B | 3.33 | 8.65 |
| P/S | 2.95 | 3.03 |
| EV/EBITDA | 26.7 | 16.9 |
| Revenue growth | +26.3% | +14.8% |
| Gross margin | 57.7% | 69.7% |
| Operating margin | 10.8% | 9.5% |
| Net margin | 6.7% | 11.6% |
| Return on equity | 7.6% | 33.1% |
| Return on assets | 4.4% | 12.2% |
| Return on invested capital | 7.8% | 22.7% |
| FCF yield | 2.6% | 3.2% |
| Dividend yield | — | 0.9% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.44 |
| Current ratio | 1.50 | 2.13 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.60 | 5.96 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 4 / 9 |
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