PSO vs. SN, CZR, LNW, BIRK, ROKU, NCLH, PARA, TTC, CHDN, and SKX
Should you be buying Pearson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pearson include SharkNinja (SN), Caesars Entertainment (CZR), Light & Wonder (LNW), Birkenstock (BIRK), Roku (ROKU), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Paramount Global (PARA), Toro (TTC), Churchill Downs (CHDN), and Skechers U.S.A. (SKX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
SharkNinja (NYSE:SN) and Pearson (NYSE:PSO) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Pearson received 392 more outperform votes than SharkNinja when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 90.91% of users gave SharkNinja an outperform vote while only 48.26% of users gave Pearson an outperform vote.
Pearson has higher revenue and earnings than SharkNinja.
34.8% of SharkNinja shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.1% of Pearson shares are held by institutional investors. 11.1% of SharkNinja shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Pearson 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.
SharkNinja has a net margin of 3.93% compared to SharkNinja's net margin of 0.00%. Pearson's return on equity of 24.71% beat SharkNinja's return on equity.
Pearson has a consensus price target of $12.30, suggesting a potential downside of 0.65%. Given SharkNinja's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pearson is more favorable than SharkNinja.
In the previous week, Pearson had 7 more articles in the media than SharkNinja. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Pearson and 6 mentions for SharkNinja. Pearson's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat SharkNinja's score of -0.06 indicating that SharkNinja is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
SharkNinja beats Pearson on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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