Comparing Tandy Brands Accessories (OTCMKTS:TBACQ) & Guess? (NYSE:GES)

Tandy Brands Accessories (OTCMKTS:TBACQ) and Guess? (NYSE:GES) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends and earnings.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

61.7% of Guess? shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.6% of Tandy Brands Accessories shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.7% of Guess? shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Tandy Brands Accessories and Guess?, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Tandy Brands Accessories	0	0	0	0	0.00
Guess?	0	4	0	0	2.00

Guess? has a consensus target price of $16.75, indicating a potential upside of 0.18%. Given Guess?’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Guess? is more favorable than Tandy Brands Accessories.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Tandy Brands Accessories and Guess?”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tandy Brands Accessories	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Guess?	$3.00 billion	0.29	$60.42 million	$0.16	104.50

Guess? has higher revenue and earnings than Tandy Brands Accessories.

Profitability

This table compares Tandy Brands Accessories and Guess?’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tandy Brands Accessories	N/A	N/A	N/A
Guess?	1.01%	16.44%	3.05%

Summary

Guess? beats Tandy Brands Accessories on 8 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Tandy Brands Accessories

Tandy Brands Accessories, Inc. engages in the design and marketing of accessories. Its products include belts, gifts, small leather goods, and bags for men, women, and children. The company was founded in November 1990 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

About Guess?

Guess?, Inc. designs, markets, distributes, and licenses lifestyle collections of apparel and accessories for men, women, and children. It operates through five segments: Americas Retail, Americas Wholesale, Europe, Asia, and Licensing. The company’s clothing collection includes jeans, pants, skirts, dresses, shorts, blouses, shirts, jackets, activewear, knitwear, and intimate apparel. It also grants licenses to design, manufacture, and distribute various products that complement its apparel lines, such as eyewear, watches, handbags, footwear, kids’ and infants’ apparel, outerwear, fragrance, jewelry, and other fashion accessories, as well as to wholesale partners to operate and sell products through licensed retail stores. The company markets its products under the GUESS, GUESS?, GUESS U.S.A., GUESS Jeans, GUESS? and Triangle Design, MARCIANO, Question Mark and Triangle Design, a stylized G and a stylized M, GUESS Kids, Baby GUESS, YES, G by GUESS, GUESS by MARCIANO, and Gc brand names. It sells its products through direct-to-consumer, wholesale, and licensing distribution channels, as well as through its retail websites. Guess?, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.