HAS vs. PSO, BIRK, LNW, TAL, ROKU, PARA, DLB, CZR, SN, and CROX
Should you be buying Hasbro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hasbro include Pearson (PSO), Birkenstock (BIRK), Light & Wonder (LNW), TAL Education Group (TAL), Roku (ROKU), Paramount Global (PARA), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), Caesars Entertainment (CZR), SharkNinja (SN), and Crocs (CROX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Hasbro (NASDAQ:HAS) and Pearson (NYSE:PSO) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Pearson has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hasbro.
Hasbro received 225 more outperform votes than Pearson when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.88% of users gave Hasbro an outperform vote while only 48.26% of users gave Pearson an outperform vote.
Pearson has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Hasbro's net margin of -29.60%. Hasbro's return on equity of 25.41% beat Pearson's return on equity.
Hasbro presently has a consensus price target of $66.36, suggesting a potential upside of 10.37%. Pearson has a consensus price target of $12.30, suggesting a potential upside of 0.82%. Given Hasbro's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Hasbro is more favorable than Pearson.
Hasbro has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pearson has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hasbro had 9 more articles in the media than Pearson. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Hasbro and 10 mentions for Pearson. Pearson's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Hasbro's score of 0.26 indicating that Pearson is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
91.8% of Hasbro shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.1% of Pearson shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Hasbro shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Pearson shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hasbro pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Pearson pays an annual dividend of $0.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Hasbro pays out -27.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Hasbro beats Pearson on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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