LULU vs. CHTR, DKNG, HLT, RCL, TCOM, LVS, EA, TTWO, ONON, and LYV
Should you be buying Lululemon Athletica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lululemon Athletica include Charter Communications (CHTR), DraftKings (DKNG), Hilton Worldwide (HLT), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Trip.com Group (TCOM), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Electronic Arts (EA), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), ON (ONON), and Live Nation Entertainment (LYV).
Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ:LULU) and Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Lululemon Athletica has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Charter Communications has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lululemon Athletica has a net margin of 16.11% compared to Charter Communications' net margin of 8.50%. Lululemon Athletica's return on equity of 44.41% beat Charter Communications' return on equity.
Lululemon Athletica received 1110 more outperform votes than Charter Communications when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.83% of users gave Lululemon Athletica an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Charter Communications an outperform vote.
Lululemon Athletica currently has a consensus price target of $474.79, suggesting a potential upside of 41.75%. Charter Communications has a consensus price target of $356.47, suggesting a potential upside of 30.56%. Given Lululemon Athletica's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lululemon Athletica is more favorable than Charter Communications.
In the previous week, Lululemon Athletica had 16 more articles in the media than Charter Communications. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Lululemon Athletica and 10 mentions for Charter Communications. Charter Communications' average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Lululemon Athletica's score of 0.71 indicating that Charter Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Charter Communications has higher revenue and earnings than Lululemon Athletica. Charter Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lululemon Athletica, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
85.2% of Lululemon Athletica shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.8% of Charter Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Lululemon Athletica shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Charter Communications shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Lululemon Athletica beats Charter Communications on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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