COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR COMPANY vs Cintas Corporation, two Apparel stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where COLM and CTAS diverge most: on debt / equity, COLM reads 0.00 and CTAS reads 0.55; on p/b, COLM reads 2.07 and CTAS reads 17.41. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What COLM's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). What CTAS's price implies is a demanding bet versus history and the cohort (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | COLM | CTAS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $62.28 | $205.95 |
| Market cap | $3.3B | $83.4B |
| Sector | Apparel | Apparel |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +7.5% | — |
| P/E | 19.8 | 28.5 |
| P/B | 2.07 | 17.41 |
| P/S | 0.97 | 7.56 |
| EV/EBITDA | 11.4 | 32.3 |
| Revenue growth | +1.3% | +8.7% |
| Gross margin | 50.7% | 51.0% |
| Operating margin | 5.4% | 23.2% |
| Net margin | 5.0% | 17.6% |
| Return on equity | 10.7% | 40.5% |
| Return on assets | 6.6% | 18.9% |
| Return on invested capital | 9.3% | 27.0% |
| FCF yield | 5.3% | 2.1% |
| Dividend yield | 1.9% | 0.8% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.55 |
| Current ratio | 3.07 | 1.98 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.80 | 9.24 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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