DECKERS OUTDOOR CORP vs NIKE, Inc., two Footwear stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Deckers and Nike both live in athletic footwear, and Deckers currently runs the better business by most lines here. Its Hoka and Ugg brands earn 40.97% on equity at an 18.71% net margin, well above Nike's 15.97% and 4.84%, and Deckers carries no debt where Nike carries 0.57 turns. Yet the market prices Deckers cheaper, 14.88 times earnings against Nike's 26.98, and its free-cash yield runs 7.28% to 1.74%. Nike answers with scale and income, a $60.4B cap to Deckers' $15.1B and a 3.85% dividend against none. Nike trades at 4.28 times book, Deckers at 6.03, the premium following the returns.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | DECK | NKE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $106.02 | $44.39 |
| Market cap | $15.3B | $65.8B |
| Sector | Footwear | Footwear |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +4.1% | +15.5% |
| P/E | 15.1 | 29.4 |
| P/B | 6.12 | 4.67 |
| P/S | 2.80 | 1.41 |
| EV/EBITDA | 10.6 | 89.2 |
| Revenue growth | +10.7% | -2.5% |
| Gross margin | 57.6% | 40.2% |
| Operating margin | 14.0% | — |
| Net margin | 18.7% | 4.8% |
| Return on equity | 41.0% | 16.0% |
| Return on assets | 27.8% | 6.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 39.9% | — |
| FCF yield | 7.2% | 1.6% |
| Dividend yield | — | 3.5% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.57 |
| Current ratio | 3.54 | 2.14 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 9.14 | 7.63 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 4 / 9 |
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