Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. BOOT scored 77.0, LOW scored 54.1 — BOOT leads.
Compare another set
BOOT
Boot Barn Holdings, Inc.
Apparel Retail · Quality-Growth
77
$119.96 · $3.6B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
22.9
BOOT leads
LOW
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
Home Improvement Retail · Quality-Growth
54.1
$186.00 · $104.4B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestBOOT15.4x
Fastest growthBOOT+17.9%
Highest qualityLOW77 / 100
Largest discount to fair valueLOW-8%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
BOOT
stronger →← stronger
LOW
73
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
77
89
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
38
71
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
54
BOOT is stronger on 2 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
BOOT
LOW
$116mC
FCF
$7.0bB+
+17.9%B+
Rev
+3.1%C+
0.59B+
D/E
Negative equity
15.4xB+
P/E
15.7xB+
1.44B
PEG
1.20B+
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
BOOT
LOW
150% above
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
8% below
~38%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~1%/yr
-66%
1-yr DCF upside
+9%
-60%
5-yr DCF upside
+8%
-50%
10-yr DCF upside
+7%
These two disagree on this pair: the Value pillar ranks cheapness against sector peers, while price-vs-fair-value is an absolute read. A name can be the better value in its sector and still the dearer one on cash flows.
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
BOOT
Why this score
Durable high returns
LOW
The companies
BOOTBoot Barn Holdings, Inc.
Apparel Retail · $119.96 · beta 1.76
Why now
Apparel Retail · market cap $3.6b. Down 43% from 52-week high of $210.25 — deep drawdown territory. Revenue growing +18%, comfortably above the S&P median. 14 sell-side analysts rate this a Strong Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $217.00 (implying +81% upside).
Moat
ROE 19% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately.
Risk
Down 43% from the 52-week high — the market is pricing in something the screen can't see; verify the bear case before sizing up. Beta 1.76 implies above-market volatility — position-size to the drawdowns this name will produce in a market correction, not to its bull-case return.
LOWLowe's Companies, Inc.
Home Improvement Retail · $186.00 · beta 0.88
Why now
Home Improvement Retail · market cap $104.4b. Down 37% from 52-week high of $293.06 — deep drawdown territory. 33 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $249.39 (implying +34% upside).
Moat
FCF converts 106% of net income — earnings translate cleanly into cash. $104.4b market cap gives the company enough scale to absorb fixed costs that subscale competitors can't, without yet being so large that growth has to come from acquisition.
Risk
Down 37% from the 52-week high — the market is pricing in something the screen can't see; verify the bear case before sizing up.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
Generating verdict… typically 5–10 seconds
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Where BOOT and LOW diverge
On the headline score the gap is 22.9 points in favor of BOOT. They get there differently, though — each leads on a different pillar, so the better pick depends on which you weight.
GrowthBOOT 88.9 · LOW 38.3BOOT +50.6
ValueBOOT 70.5 · LOW 53.8BOOT +16.7
QualityBOOT 72.7 · LOW 76.7LOW +4.0
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is BOOT or LOW the better stock?
BOOT scores higher: BOOT 77.0, LOW 54.1 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do BOOT and LOW differ most?
The widest gap is growth, where BOOT leads by 51 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. Neither name sweeps: they trade the lead across the three pillars, so the comparison is a trade-off rather than one being better on every measure.
How are BOOT and LOW scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.