CNK vs. RDI, DIS, LYV, NWSA, AMC, MCS, PSO, HAS, PARA, and CZR
Should you be buying Cinemark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cinemark include Reading International (RDI), Walt Disney (DIS), Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), News (NWSA), AMC Entertainment (AMC), Marcus (MCS), Pearson (PSO), Hasbro (HAS), Paramount Global (PARA), and Caesars Entertainment (CZR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Reading International (NASDAQ:RDI) and Cinemark (NYSE:CNK) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
In the previous week, Cinemark had 10 more articles in the media than Reading International. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Cinemark and 4 mentions for Reading International. Reading International's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Cinemark's score of 0.28 indicating that Cinemark is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
44.7% of Reading International shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.5% of Reading International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Cinemark shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cinemark has a net margin of 7.12% compared to Cinemark's net margin of -14.77%. Reading International's return on equity of 69.48% beat Cinemark's return on equity.
Cinemark has a consensus target price of $20.33, indicating a potential upside of 21.03%. Given Reading International's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cinemark is more favorable than Reading International.
Cinemark has higher revenue and earnings than Reading International. Reading International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cinemark, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Reading International has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cinemark has a beta of 2.27, meaning that its stock price is 127% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cinemark received 500 more outperform votes than Reading International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.34% of users gave Cinemark an outperform vote while only 49.79% of users gave Reading International an outperform vote.
Summary
Cinemark beats Reading International on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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