POOL vs. NWS, SNA, FWONA, NWSA, FOX, FOXA, PARAA, H, EDU, and MGM
Should you be buying Pool stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pool include News (NWS), Snap-on (SNA), Formula One Group (FWONA), News (NWSA), FOX (FOX), FOX (FOXA), Paramount Global (PARAA), Hyatt Hotels (H), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), and MGM Resorts International (MGM). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Pool (NASDAQ:POOL) and News (NASDAQ:NWS) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.
Pool has higher earnings, but lower revenue than News. Pool is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than News, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pool pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. News pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Pool pays out 34.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. News pays out 50.0% 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. Pool is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Pool has a net margin of 9.17% compared to News' net margin of 2.29%. Pool's return on equity of 35.49% beat News' return on equity.
Pool has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, News has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Pool received 119 more outperform votes than News when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.95% of users gave Pool an outperform vote while only 60.68% of users gave News an outperform vote.
99.0% of Pool shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.6% of News shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Pool shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.7% of News 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.
Pool presently has a consensus target price of $391.80, suggesting a potential upside of 7.45%. Given Pool's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Pool is more favorable than News.
In the previous week, Pool had 55 more articles in the media than News. MarketBeat recorded 58 mentions for Pool and 3 mentions for News. Pool's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat News' score of 0.23 indicating that Pool is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Pool beats News on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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