COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR COMPANY vs PVH Corp., two Apparel stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
PVH, the owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, trades below book at 0.71 times, the market's blunt verdict on brands that have stopped earning much: a 1.76% net margin and 3.23% return on equity. Columbia Sportswear does better on both counts, 4.98% and 10.7%, and gets a higher 2.15 times book to match. Yet PVH's beaten-down price produces a huge 15.94% free cash flow yield against Columbia's 5.13%. Columbia pays 1.86% with no debt; PVH pays a token 0.2% carrying 0.47. Columbia is a steady outdoor name whose value sits in plain view, while PVH is a wager the crowd has mispriced.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | COLM | PVH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $62.99 | $79.37 |
| Market cap | $3.3B | $3.7B |
| Sector | Apparel | Apparel |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | -2.9% | — |
| P/E | 20.1 | 24.1 |
| P/B | 2.10 | 0.75 |
| P/S | 0.98 | 0.41 |
| EV/EBITDA | 11.6 | 5.6 |
| Revenue growth | +1.3% | +3.5% |
| Gross margin | 50.7% | 58.6% |
| Operating margin | 5.4% | 6.1% |
| Net margin | 5.0% | 1.8% |
| Return on equity | 10.7% | 3.2% |
| Return on assets | 6.6% | 1.4% |
| Return on invested capital | 9.3% | 7.8% |
| FCF yield | 5.3% | 14.9% |
| Dividend yield | 1.9% | 0.2% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.47 |
| Current ratio | 3.07 | 1.68 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.82 | 7.73 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 4 / 9 |
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