PRKS vs. MTN, MSGS, IGT, FUN, SIX, RSI, SGHC, MSGE, FBYD, and GENI
Should you be buying United Parks & Resorts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Parks & Resorts include Vail Resorts (MTN), Madison Square Garden Sports (MSGS), International Game Technology (IGT), Cedar Fair (FUN), Six Flags Entertainment (SIX), Rush Street Interactive (RSI), Super Group (SGHC), Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE), Falcon's Beyond Global (FBYD), and Genius Sports (GENI). These companies are all part of the "miscellaneous amusement & recreation services" industry.
Vail Resorts (NYSE:MTN) and United Parks & Resorts (NYSE:PRKS) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Vail Resorts has higher revenue and earnings than United Parks & Resorts. United Parks & Resorts is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vail Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vail Resorts has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Parks & Resorts has a beta of 1.83, suggesting that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Vail Resorts currently has a consensus target price of $260.11, indicating a potential upside of 37.92%. United Parks & Resorts has a consensus target price of $59.80, indicating a potential upside of 14.38%. Given United Parks & Resorts' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Vail Resorts is more favorable than United Parks & Resorts.
94.9% of Vail Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Vail Resorts shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of United Parks & Resorts shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Vail Resorts received 629 more outperform votes than United Parks & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.81% of users gave Vail Resorts an outperform vote while only 37.50% of users gave United Parks & Resorts an outperform vote.
United Parks & Resorts has a net margin of 13.84% compared to United Parks & Resorts' net margin of 8.44%. United Parks & Resorts' return on equity of 19.16% beat Vail Resorts' return on equity.
In the previous week, Vail Resorts had 13 more articles in the media than United Parks & Resorts. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Vail Resorts and 1 mentions for United Parks & Resorts. Vail Resorts' average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat United Parks & Resorts' score of 0.64 indicating that United Parks & Resorts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Vail Resorts beats United Parks & Resorts on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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