GDEN vs. EVRI, XPOF, MSGE, WBAI, SGHC, RSI, FUN, SIX, PRKS, and IMAX
Should you be buying Golden Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Golden Entertainment include Everi (EVRI), Xponential Fitness (XPOF), Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE), 500.com (WBAI), Super Group (SGHC), Rush Street Interactive (RSI), Cedar Fair (FUN), Six Flags Entertainment (SIX), United Parks & Resorts (PRKS), and IMAX (IMAX).
Everi (NYSE:EVRI) and Golden Entertainment (NASDAQ:GDEN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.
95.5% of Everi shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.7% of Golden Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of Everi shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.1% of Golden Entertainment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Golden Entertainment has higher revenue and earnings than Everi. Golden Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Everi, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Everi has a beta of 2.09, suggesting that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Golden Entertainment has a beta of 2.26, suggesting that its stock price is 126% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Everi received 96 more outperform votes than Golden Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.30% of users gave Everi an outperform vote while only 63.21% of users gave Golden Entertainment an outperform vote.
Golden Entertainment has a net margin of 30.14% compared to Golden Entertainment's net margin of 7.59%. Golden Entertainment's return on equity of 30.41% beat Everi's return on equity.
Everi presently has a consensus target price of $12.60, suggesting a potential upside of 70.73%. Golden Entertainment has a consensus target price of $42.75, suggesting a potential upside of 36.45%. Given Golden Entertainment's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Everi is more favorable than Golden Entertainment.
In the previous week, Everi had 6 more articles in the media than Golden Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Everi and 9 mentions for Golden Entertainment. Everi's average media sentiment score of 0.08 beat Golden Entertainment's score of 0.00 indicating that Golden Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Golden Entertainment beats Everi on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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