WTB vs. IHG, MKS, BKG, SMDS, JD, TW, HWDN, ENT, KGF, and BDEV
Should you be buying Whitbread stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Whitbread include InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Marks and Spencer Group (MKS), The Berkeley Group (BKG), DS Smith (SMDS), JD Sports Fashion (JD), Taylor Wimpey (TW), Howden Joinery Group (HWDN), Entain (ENT), Kingfisher (KGF), and Barratt Developments (BDEV). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Whitbread (LON:WTB) and InterContinental Hotels Group (LON:IHG) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
69.2% of Whitbread shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.5% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Whitbread shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Whitbread had 4 more articles in the media than InterContinental Hotels Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Whitbread and 1 mentions for InterContinental Hotels Group. InterContinental Hotels Group's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Whitbread's score of 0.26 indicating that InterContinental Hotels Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Whitbread pays an annual dividend of GBX 97 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. InterContinental Hotels Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 123 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Whitbread pays out 6,062.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. InterContinental Hotels Group pays out 3,484.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Whitbread received 452 more outperform votes than InterContinental Hotels Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.73% of users gave Whitbread an outperform vote while only 50.65% of users gave InterContinental Hotels Group an outperform vote.
InterContinental Hotels Group has a net margin of 20.12% compared to Whitbread's net margin of 10.50%. Whitbread's return on equity of 32.72% beat InterContinental Hotels Group's return on equity.
Whitbread has higher revenue and earnings than InterContinental Hotels Group. Whitbread is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than InterContinental Hotels Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Whitbread currently has a consensus price target of GBX 4,192.50, suggesting a potential upside of 34.57%. InterContinental Hotels Group has a consensus price target of GBX 6,415, suggesting a potential downside of 18.47%. Given Whitbread's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Whitbread is more favorable than InterContinental Hotels Group.
Whitbread has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InterContinental Hotels Group has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Whitbread beats InterContinental Hotels Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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