COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR COMPANY vs RALPH LAUREN CORPORATION, two Apparel stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where COLM and RL diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), COLM reads -4.1% and RL reads +21.3%; on debt / equity, COLM reads 0.00 and RL reads 0.44. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's COLM price has a different growth bar priced in than RL (-4.1% implied for COLM vs +21.3% for RL); 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 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 | COLM | RL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $59.39 | $380.70 |
| Market cap | $3.0B | $23.7B |
| Sector | Apparel | Apparel |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | -4.1% | +21.3% |
| P/E | 18.9 | 25.2 |
| P/B | 1.92 | 8.33 |
| P/S | 0.89 | 2.92 |
| EV/EBITDA | 10.5 | 16.2 |
| Revenue growth | +1.3% | +14.8% |
| Gross margin | 50.7% | 69.7% |
| Operating margin | 5.4% | 9.5% |
| Net margin | 5.0% | 11.6% |
| Return on equity | 10.7% | 33.1% |
| Return on assets | 6.6% | 12.2% |
| Return on invested capital | 9.3% | 22.7% |
| FCF yield | 5.7% | 3.4% |
| Dividend yield | 2.0% | 1.0% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.44 |
| Current ratio | 3.07 | 2.13 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.65 | 5.85 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 4 / 9 |
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