MLCO vs. TNL, PENN, ATAT, WYND, PLYA, BYD, RRR, CHH, WH, and CZR
Should you be buying Melco Resorts & Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Melco Resorts & Entertainment include Travel + Leisure (TNL), PENN Entertainment (PENN), Atour Lifestyle (ATAT), Wyndham Destinations (WYND), Playa Hotels & Resorts (PLYA), Boyd Gaming (BYD), Red Rock Resorts (RRR), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), and Caesars Entertainment (CZR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Travel + Leisure (NYSE:TNL) and Melco Resorts & Entertainment (NASDAQ:MLCO) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking and valuation.
87.5% of Travel + Leisure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.6% of Melco Resorts & Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Travel + Leisure shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.1% of Melco Resorts & Entertainment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Travel + Leisure currently has a consensus price target of $54.83, suggesting a potential upside of 20.51%. Melco Resorts & Entertainment has a consensus price target of $13.82, suggesting a potential upside of 78.09%. Given Travel + Leisure's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Melco Resorts & Entertainment is more favorable than Travel + Leisure.
Melco Resorts & Entertainment received 549 more outperform votes than Travel + Leisure when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.39% of users gave Melco Resorts & Entertainment an outperform vote while only 38.46% of users gave Travel + Leisure an outperform vote.
Travel + Leisure has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Melco Resorts & Entertainment. Melco Resorts & Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Travel + Leisure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Travel + Leisure has a net margin of 10.54% compared to Travel + Leisure's net margin of -4.34%. Travel + Leisure's return on equity of -7.61% beat Melco Resorts & Entertainment's return on equity.
In the previous week, Melco Resorts & Entertainment had 10 more articles in the media than Travel + Leisure. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Melco Resorts & Entertainment and 5 mentions for Travel + Leisure. Travel + Leisure's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Melco Resorts & Entertainment's score of 0.84 indicating that Melco Resorts & Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Travel + Leisure has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Melco Resorts & Entertainment has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Melco Resorts & Entertainment beats Travel + Leisure on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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