SPHR vs. NGMS, BOWL, ACEL, RSVR, MANU, VSCO, LZB, RSI, CAL, and GIII
Should you be buying Sphere Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sphere Entertainment include NeoGames (NGMS), Bowlero (BOWL), Accel Entertainment (ACEL), Reservoir Media (RSVR), Manchester United (MANU), Victoria's Secret & Co. (VSCO), La-Z-Boy (LZB), Rush Street Interactive (RSI), Caleres (CAL), and G-III Apparel Group (GIII). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
NeoGames (NASDAQ:NGMS) and Sphere Entertainment (NYSE:SPHR) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking and valuation.
29.7% of NeoGames shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Sphere Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 27.8% of NeoGames shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.5% of Sphere Entertainment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
NeoGames currently has a consensus price target of $29.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.17%. Sphere Entertainment has a consensus price target of $35.60, suggesting a potential downside of 10.24%. Given Sphere Entertainment's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe NeoGames is more favorable than Sphere Entertainment.
NeoGames received 13 more outperform votes than Sphere Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 41.46% of users gave NeoGames an outperform vote while only 22.22% of users gave Sphere Entertainment an outperform vote.
Sphere Entertainment has higher revenue and earnings than NeoGames. NeoGames is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sphere Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sphere Entertainment has a net margin of 40.36% compared to Sphere Entertainment's net margin of -9.54%. Sphere Entertainment's return on equity of 9.15% beat NeoGames' return on equity.
In the previous week, Sphere Entertainment had 3 more articles in the media than NeoGames. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Sphere Entertainment and 0 mentions for NeoGames. NeoGames' average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Sphere Entertainment's score of 0.27 indicating that Sphere Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NeoGames has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sphere Entertainment has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sphere Entertainment beats NeoGames on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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