BOWL vs. SPHR, NGMS, ACEL, MANU, RSVR, CWH, MLKN, OXM, TV, and AFYA
Should you be buying Bowlero stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bowlero include Sphere Entertainment (SPHR), NeoGames (NGMS), Accel Entertainment (ACEL), Manchester United (MANU), Reservoir Media (RSVR), Camping World (CWH), MillerKnoll (MLKN), Oxford Industries (OXM), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), and Afya (AFYA). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Bowlero (NYSE:BOWL) and Sphere Entertainment (NYSE:SPHR) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, earnings and analyst recommendations.
68.1% of Bowlero shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Sphere Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 56.5% of Bowlero shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 24.5% of Sphere Entertainment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Bowlero currently has a consensus price target of $16.57, indicating a potential upside of 46.78%. Sphere Entertainment has a consensus price target of $35.60, indicating a potential downside of 12.53%. Given Bowlero's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Bowlero is more favorable than Sphere Entertainment.
In the previous week, Bowlero had 32 more articles in the media than Sphere Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Bowlero and 3 mentions for Sphere Entertainment. Sphere Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Bowlero's score of -0.17 indicating that Sphere Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sphere Entertainment has a net margin of 40.36% compared to Bowlero's net margin of 6.33%. Bowlero's return on equity of 98.75% beat Sphere Entertainment's return on equity.
Sphere Entertainment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bowlero. Sphere Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bowlero, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bowlero received 25 more outperform votes than Sphere Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.36% of users gave Bowlero an outperform vote while only 22.22% of users gave Sphere Entertainment an outperform vote.
Bowlero has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sphere Entertainment has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bowlero beats Sphere Entertainment on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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