SP vs. GDEN, NGMS, ACEL, TILE, BYON, TH, IMAX, BV, AMC, and MNRO
Should you be buying SP Plus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SP Plus include Golden Entertainment (GDEN), NeoGames (NGMS), Accel Entertainment (ACEL), Interface (TILE), Beyond (BYON), Target Hospitality (TH), IMAX (IMAX), BrightView (BV), AMC Entertainment (AMC), and Monro (MNRO). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Golden Entertainment (NASDAQ:GDEN) and SP Plus (NASDAQ:SP) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Golden Entertainment received 25 more outperform votes than SP Plus when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.06% of users gave Golden Entertainment an outperform vote while only 60.04% of users gave SP Plus an outperform vote.
Golden Entertainment has a beta of 2.25, meaning that its share price is 125% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SP Plus has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Golden Entertainment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SP Plus. Golden Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SP Plus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Golden Entertainment has a net margin of 24.28% compared to Golden Entertainment's net margin of 1.74%. Golden Entertainment's return on equity of 22.49% beat SP Plus' return on equity.
Golden Entertainment currently has a consensus price target of $45.75, suggesting a potential upside of 44.41%. SP Plus has a consensus price target of $52.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.17%. Given SP Plus' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Golden Entertainment is more favorable than SP Plus.
In the previous week, Golden Entertainment had 5 more articles in the media than SP Plus. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Golden Entertainment and 9 mentions for SP Plus. SP Plus' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Golden Entertainment's score of 0.35 indicating that Golden Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
70.7% of Golden Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.0% of SP Plus shares are held by institutional investors. 29.1% of Golden Entertainment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of SP Plus shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Golden Entertainment beats SP Plus on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get SP Plus News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for SP and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SP and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Related Companies and Tools
