KONTOOR BRANDS, INC. vs PVH Corp., two Apparel stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Kontoor Brands runs Wrangler and Lee for hard cash, wringing a 44.76% return on equity out of heavy leverage at 1.87 debt to equity. PVH, owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, has faltered, a 3.23% return on equity and a stock below book at 0.71 times. The market pays 16.87 times earnings for Kontoor and 22.55 for PVH despite PVH's weaker returns. Both throw off strong cash, Kontoor at 8.57% and PVH at 15.94%, and both pay small dividends. Kontoor is a leveraged denim engine that works; PVH is a brand house the crowd has written down.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | KTB | PVH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $85.64 | $79.37 |
| Market cap | $4.8B | $3.7B |
| Sector | Apparel | Apparel |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +18.2% | — |
| P/E | 17.3 | 24.1 |
| P/B | 7.75 | 0.75 |
| P/S | 1.43 | 0.41 |
| EV/EBITDA | 14.4 | 5.6 |
| Revenue growth | +38.7% | +3.5% |
| Gross margin | — | 58.6% |
| Operating margin | 14.7% | 6.1% |
| Net margin | 8.3% | 1.8% |
| Return on equity | 44.8% | 3.2% |
| Return on assets | 10.4% | 1.4% |
| Return on invested capital | 16.8% | 7.8% |
| FCF yield | 8.3% | 14.9% |
| Dividend yield | 2.4% | 0.2% |
| Debt / equity | 1.87 | 0.47 |
| Current ratio | 1.87 | 1.68 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.18 | 7.73 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 5 / 9 | 4 / 9 |
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