LYV vs. EDR, WMG, TKO, WBD, ONON, RBLX, K, TTWO, CCL, and IHG
Should you be buying Live Nation Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Live Nation Entertainment include Endeavor Group (EDR), Warner Music Group (WMG), TKO Group (TKO), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), ON (ONON), Roblox (RBLX), Kellanova (K), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), Carnival Co. & (CCL), and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Endeavor Group (NYSE:EDR) and Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:LYV) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.
Endeavor Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Live Nation Entertainment. Endeavor Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Live Nation Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Endeavor Group has a net margin of 5.98% compared to Endeavor Group's net margin of 2.48%. Endeavor Group's return on equity of 118.42% beat Live Nation Entertainment's return on equity.
Endeavor Group presently has a consensus price target of $29.30, indicating a potential upside of 10.82%. Live Nation Entertainment has a consensus price target of $116.30, indicating a potential upside of 28.45%. Given Endeavor Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Live Nation Entertainment is more favorable than Endeavor Group.
71.4% of Endeavor Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of Live Nation Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 82.1% of Endeavor Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Live Nation Entertainment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Endeavor Group has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Live Nation Entertainment has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Live Nation Entertainment had 27 more articles in the media than Endeavor Group. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Live Nation Entertainment and 5 mentions for Endeavor Group. Endeavor Group's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Live Nation Entertainment's score of 0.12 indicating that Live Nation Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Live Nation Entertainment received 579 more outperform votes than Endeavor Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.33% of users gave Live Nation Entertainment an outperform vote while only 44.90% of users gave Endeavor Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Live Nation Entertainment beats Endeavor Group on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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