EDR vs. WMG, TKO, LYV, K, CCL, IHG, ONON, WBD, EDU, and H
Should you be buying Endeavor Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Endeavor Group include Warner Music Group (WMG), TKO Group (TKO), Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), Kellanova (K), Carnival Co. & (CCL), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), ON (ONON), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), and Hyatt Hotels (H). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Endeavor Group (NYSE:EDR) and Warner Music Group (NASDAQ:WMG) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
Endeavor Group pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Warner Music Group pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Endeavor Group pays out 23.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Warner Music Group pays out 77.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Endeavor Group currently has a consensus price target of $29.30, indicating a potential upside of 10.94%. Warner Music Group has a consensus price target of $36.88, indicating a potential upside of 11.76%. Given Warner Music Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Warner Music Group is more favorable than Endeavor Group.
Warner Music Group has a net margin of 7.42% compared to Endeavor Group's net margin of 5.98%. Warner Music Group's return on equity of 128.86% beat Endeavor Group's return on equity.
Warner Music Group has higher revenue and earnings than Endeavor Group. Endeavor Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Warner Music Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Endeavor Group has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Warner Music Group has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Endeavor Group had 1 more articles in the media than Warner Music Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Endeavor Group and 5 mentions for Warner Music Group. Endeavor Group's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Warner Music Group's score of 0.34 indicating that Endeavor Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
71.4% of Endeavor Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.9% of Warner Music Group shares are held by institutional investors. 82.1% of Endeavor Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 73.4% of Warner Music Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Endeavor Group received 3 more outperform votes than Warner Music Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 44.90% of users gave Endeavor Group an outperform vote while only 37.61% of users gave Warner Music Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Warner Music Group beats Endeavor Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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