WYND vs. H, MGM, HTHT, WYNN, CZR, WH, CHH, RRR, BYD, and MLCO
Should you be buying Wyndham Destinations stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wyndham Destinations include Hyatt Hotels (H), MGM Resorts International (MGM), H World Group (HTHT), Wynn Resorts (WYNN), Caesars Entertainment (CZR), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Red Rock Resorts (RRR), Boyd Gaming (BYD), and Melco Resorts & Entertainment (MLCO). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Wyndham Destinations (NYSE:WYND) and Hyatt Hotels (NYSE:H) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Hyatt Hotels has a consensus price target of $148.31, suggesting a potential upside of 1.67%. Given Hyatt Hotels' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hyatt Hotels is more favorable than Wyndham Destinations.
90.3% of Wyndham Destinations shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of Hyatt Hotels shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Wyndham Destinations shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.5% of Hyatt Hotels shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Wyndham Destinations has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hyatt Hotels has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wyndham Destinations pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Hyatt Hotels pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Wyndham Destinations pays out 21.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hyatt Hotels pays out 9.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Hyatt Hotels has a net margin of 10.21% compared to Wyndham Destinations' net margin of 0.13%. Hyatt Hotels' return on equity of 8.44% beat Wyndham Destinations' return on equity.
In the previous week, Hyatt Hotels had 6 more articles in the media than Wyndham Destinations. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Hyatt Hotels and 3 mentions for Wyndham Destinations. Hyatt Hotels' average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Wyndham Destinations' score of 0.00 indicating that Hyatt Hotels is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wyndham Destinations has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hyatt Hotels. Wyndham Destinations is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hyatt Hotels, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hyatt Hotels received 468 more outperform votes than Wyndham Destinations when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.99% of users gave Wyndham Destinations an outperform vote while only 58.05% of users gave Hyatt Hotels an outperform vote.
Summary
Hyatt Hotels beats Wyndham Destinations on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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