BFAM vs. NCLH, PVH, MAT, LBTYK, LBTYA, REYN, HRB, NXST, GIL, and PLNT
Should you be buying Bright Horizons Family Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bright Horizons Family Solutions include Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), PVH (PVH), Mattel (MAT), Liberty Global (LBTYK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN), H&R Block (HRB), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), Gildan Activewear (GIL), and Planet Fitness (PLNT). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) and Norwegian Cruise Line (NYSE:NCLH) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $107.43, indicating a potential downside of 1.50%. Norwegian Cruise Line has a consensus target price of $20.67, indicating a potential upside of 31.22%. Given Norwegian Cruise Line's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Norwegian Cruise Line is more favorable than Bright Horizons Family Solutions.
In the previous week, Norwegian Cruise Line had 7 more articles in the media than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Norwegian Cruise Line and 3 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Norwegian Cruise Line's score of 0.76 indicating that Bright Horizons Family Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Norwegian Cruise Line has higher revenue and earnings than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Norwegian Cruise Line is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bright Horizons Family Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Norwegian Cruise Line has a net margin of 3.84% compared to Bright Horizons Family Solutions' net margin of 3.34%. Norwegian Cruise Line's return on equity of 136.20% beat Bright Horizons Family Solutions' return on equity.
69.6% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Norwegian Cruise Line has a beta of 2.59, meaning that its share price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions received 371 more outperform votes than Norwegian Cruise Line when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.89% of users gave Bright Horizons Family Solutions an outperform vote while only 30.25% of users gave Norwegian Cruise Line an outperform vote.
Summary
Norwegian Cruise Line beats Bright Horizons Family Solutions on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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