CROCS, INC. vs NIKE, Inc., two Footwear stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Crocs and Nike both sell shoes, but a HeyDude brand impairment dropped Crocs into a reported loss this year: negative 7.27% on equity, a negative 2.58% net margin, the write-down burying a normally profitable molded-clog business. Cash runs the other way, a 9.93% free-cash yield against Nike's 1.74%. Nike earns 15.97% on equity at a 4.84% net margin, pays 3.85% in dividends, and trades at 26.98 times earnings and 4.28 times book against Crocs' 4.54 times. Nike carries 0.57 turns of debt to Crocs' 0.94, and at $60.4B dwarfs the $6.5B maker. The charge, not the day-to-day clog business, is what its numbers currently reflect.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | CROX | NKE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $132.83 | $44.39 |
| Market cap | $6.7B | $65.8B |
| Sector | Footwear | Footwear |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +24.6% | +15.5% |
| P/E | — | 29.4 |
| P/B | 4.72 | 4.67 |
| P/S | 1.67 | 1.41 |
| EV/EBITDA | 38.1 | 89.2 |
| Revenue growth | -1.9% | -2.5% |
| Gross margin | 56.8% | 40.2% |
| Operating margin | 21.8% | — |
| Net margin | -2.6% | 4.8% |
| Return on equity | -7.3% | 16.0% |
| Return on assets | -2.4% | 6.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 3.5% | — |
| FCF yield | 9.5% | 1.6% |
| Dividend yield | — | 3.5% |
| Debt / equity | 0.94 | 0.57 |
| Current ratio | 1.67 | 2.14 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.75 | 7.63 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 3 / 9 | 4 / 9 |
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