BKNG vs. GATX, VRRM, DESP, NFLX, EXPE, TRIP, FLWS, GRPN, PETS, and PRTS
Should you be buying Booking stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Booking include GATX (GATX), Verra Mobility (VRRM), Despegar.com (DESP), Netflix (NFLX), Expedia Group (EXPE), Tripadvisor (TRIP), 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), Groupon (GRPN), PetMed Express (PETS), and CarParts.com (PRTS).
GATX (NYSE:GATX) and Booking (NASDAQ:BKNG) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Booking received 1471 more outperform votes than GATX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.06% of users gave Booking an outperform vote while only 58.71% of users gave GATX an outperform vote.
Booking has higher revenue and earnings than GATX. GATX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Booking, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GATX has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Booking has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GATX presently has a consensus target price of $135.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.15%. Booking has a consensus target price of $3,876.96, suggesting a potential upside of 2.66%. Given GATX's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Booking is more favorable than GATX.
Booking has a net margin of 21.81% compared to Booking's net margin of 17.64%. Booking's return on equity of 11.29% beat GATX's return on equity.
GATX pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Booking pays an annual dividend of $35.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. GATX pays out 33.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Booking pays out 26.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. GATX has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. GATX is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Booking had 5 more articles in the media than GATX. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Booking and 5 mentions for GATX. GATX's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Booking's score of 1.26 indicating that Booking is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
93.1% of GATX shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Booking shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of GATX shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Booking shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Booking beats GATX on 17 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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