CCL vs. BOWL, GAW, SSPG, TRN, SMWH, MAB, PETS, DOM, COA, and AML
Should you be buying Carnival Co. & stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carnival Co. & include Hollywood Bowl Group (BOWL), Games Workshop Group (GAW), SSP Group (SSPG), Trainline (TRN), WH Smith (SMWH), Mitchells & Butlers (MAB), Pets at Home Group (PETS), Domino's Pizza Group (DOM), Coats Group (COA), and Aston Martin Lagonda Global (AML). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Hollywood Bowl Group (LON:BOWL) and Carnival Co. & (LON:CCL) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Hollywood Bowl Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 410, suggesting a potential upside of 19.53%. Given Carnival Co. &'s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Hollywood Bowl Group is more favorable than Carnival Co. &.
Carnival Co. & has higher revenue and earnings than Hollywood Bowl Group. Hollywood Bowl Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carnival Co. &, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Carnival Co. & had 3 more articles in the media than Hollywood Bowl Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Carnival Co. & and 1 mentions for Hollywood Bowl Group. Carnival Co. &'s average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Hollywood Bowl Group's score of 0.42 indicating that Hollywood Bowl Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hollywood Bowl Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Carnival Co. & pays an annual dividend of GBX 156 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.5%. Hollywood Bowl Group pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Carnival Co. & pays out 62,400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
83.3% of Hollywood Bowl Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.4% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Hollywood Bowl Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Carnival Co. & received 120 more outperform votes than Hollywood Bowl Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 82.57% of users gave Hollywood Bowl Group an outperform vote while only 64.14% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote.
Hollywood Bowl Group has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.55, suggesting that its stock price is 155% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hollywood Bowl Group has a net margin of 15.88% compared to Hollywood Bowl Group's net margin of 1.80%. Carnival Co. &'s return on equity of 23.85% beat Hollywood Bowl Group's return on equity.
Summary
Hollywood Bowl Group beats Carnival Co. & on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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