CMCSA vs. NKE, DIS, SONY, NFLX, MAR, HLT, LULU, CHTR, LBTYA, and LILA
Should you be buying Comcast stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Comcast include NIKE (NKE), Walt Disney (DIS), Sony Group (SONY), Netflix (NFLX), Marriott International (MAR), Hilton Worldwide (HLT), Lululemon Athletica (LULU), Charter Communications (CHTR), Liberty Global (LBTYA), and Liberty Latin America (LILA).
NIKE (NYSE:NKE) and Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
NIKE has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Comcast has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Comcast has higher revenue and earnings than NIKE. Comcast is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NIKE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
64.3% of NIKE shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.3% of Comcast shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of NIKE shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Comcast shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Comcast had 25 more articles in the media than NIKE. MarketBeat recorded 59 mentions for Comcast and 34 mentions for NIKE. Comcast's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat NIKE's score of 0.33 indicating that NIKE is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NIKE pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Comcast pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. NIKE pays out 43.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Comcast pays out 32.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. NIKE has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years and Comcast has raised its dividend for 17 consecutive years. Comcast is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
NIKE presently has a consensus price target of $116.26, suggesting a potential upside of 23.52%. Comcast has a consensus price target of $49.83, suggesting a potential upside of 29.19%. Given NIKE's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Comcast is more favorable than NIKE.
Comcast has a net margin of 12.64% compared to Comcast's net margin of 10.14%. Comcast's return on equity of 39.41% beat NIKE's return on equity.
NIKE received 1062 more outperform votes than Comcast when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.57% of users gave Comcast an outperform vote while only 71.10% of users gave NIKE an outperform vote.
Summary
Comcast beats NIKE on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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