COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR COMPANY vs LEVI STRAUSS & CO., two Apparel stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where COLM and LEVI diverge most: on debt / equity, COLM reads 0.00 and LEVI reads 0.46; on revenue growth, COLM reads +1.3% and LEVI reads +7.5%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's COLM price has a different growth bar priced in than LEVI (+7.5% implied for COLM vs +16.5% for LEVI); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What COLM's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). What LEVI'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 | COLM | LEVI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $62.28 | $24.54 |
| Market cap | $3.3B | $9.6B |
| Sector | Apparel | Apparel |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +7.5% | +16.5% |
| P/E | 19.8 | 15.2 |
| P/B | 2.07 | 4.21 |
| P/S | 0.97 | 1.45 |
| EV/EBITDA | 11.4 | 12.9 |
| Revenue growth | +1.3% | +7.5% |
| Gross margin | 50.7% | 62.7% |
| Operating margin | 5.4% | 7.8% |
| Net margin | 5.0% | 9.7% |
| Return on equity | 10.7% | 28.1% |
| Return on assets | 6.6% | 9.6% |
| Return on invested capital | 9.3% | 16.4% |
| FCF yield | 5.3% | 5.8% |
| Dividend yield | 1.9% | 2.2% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.46 |
| Current ratio | 3.07 | 1.60 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.80 | 2.98 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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