HGV vs. MSGS, IQ, COLM, VFC, ASO, LOPE, GOLF, WHR, IGT, and BYD
Should you be buying Hilton Grand Vacations stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hilton Grand Vacations include Madison Square Garden Sports (MSGS), iQIYI (IQ), Columbia Sportswear (COLM), V.F. (VFC), Academy Sports and Outdoors (ASO), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Acushnet (GOLF), Whirlpool (WHR), International Game Technology (IGT), and Boyd Gaming (BYD). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Madison Square Garden Sports (NYSE:MSGS) and Hilton Grand Vacations (NYSE:HGV) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Hilton Grand Vacations has a net margin of 5.62% compared to Hilton Grand Vacations' net margin of 2.59%. Madison Square Garden Sports' return on equity of 19.41% beat Hilton Grand Vacations' return on equity.
68.9% of Madison Square Garden Sports shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.2% of Hilton Grand Vacations shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.3% of Madison Square Garden Sports shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Hilton Grand Vacations shares are owned 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.
Hilton Grand Vacations has a consensus target price of $58.57, indicating a potential upside of 39.46%. Given Madison Square Garden Sports' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hilton Grand Vacations is more favorable than Madison Square Garden Sports.
In the previous week, Madison Square Garden Sports had 10 more articles in the media than Hilton Grand Vacations. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Madison Square Garden Sports and 4 mentions for Hilton Grand Vacations. Madison Square Garden Sports' average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Hilton Grand Vacations' score of 0.05 indicating that Hilton Grand Vacations is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hilton Grand Vacations has higher revenue and earnings than Madison Square Garden Sports. Hilton Grand Vacations is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Madison Square Garden Sports, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Madison Square Garden Sports has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hilton Grand Vacations has a beta of 1.94, meaning that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hilton Grand Vacations received 334 more outperform votes than Madison Square Garden Sports when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.87% of users gave Hilton Grand Vacations an outperform vote while only 34.48% of users gave Madison Square Garden Sports an outperform vote.
Summary
Hilton Grand Vacations beats Madison Square Garden Sports on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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