SIX vs. MTN, MSGS, IGT, PRKS, FUN, RSI, SGHC, FBYD, MSGE, and GENI
Should you be buying Six Flags Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Six Flags Entertainment include Vail Resorts (MTN), Madison Square Garden Sports (MSGS), International Game Technology (IGT), United Parks & Resorts (PRKS), Cedar Fair (FUN), Rush Street Interactive (RSI), Super Group (SGHC), Falcon's Beyond Global (FBYD), Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE), and Genius Sports (GENI). These companies are all part of the "miscellaneous amusement & recreation services" industry.
Six Flags Entertainment (NYSE:SIX) and Vail Resorts (NYSE:MTN) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends and institutional ownership.
Six Flags Entertainment presently has a consensus price target of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.02%. Vail Resorts has a consensus price target of $260.11, indicating a potential upside of 37.83%. Given Vail Resorts' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Vail Resorts is more favorable than Six Flags Entertainment.
Vail Resorts has higher revenue and earnings than Six Flags Entertainment. Vail Resorts is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Six Flags Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vail Resorts has a net margin of 8.44% compared to Six Flags Entertainment's net margin of 1.84%. Vail Resorts' return on equity of 19.16% beat Six Flags Entertainment's return on equity.
98.0% of Six Flags Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Vail Resorts shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Six Flags Entertainment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Vail Resorts shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Vail Resorts had 2 more articles in the media than Six Flags Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Vail Resorts and 10 mentions for Six Flags Entertainment. Six Flags Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Vail Resorts' score of 0.65 indicating that Six Flags Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vail Resorts received 41 more outperform votes than Six Flags Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.81% of users gave Vail Resorts an outperform vote while only 66.70% of users gave Six Flags Entertainment an outperform vote.
Six Flags Entertainment has a beta of 2.2, indicating that its share price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vail Resorts has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Vail Resorts beats Six Flags Entertainment on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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