WH vs. IHG, H, MGM, HTHT, WYNN, CZR, CHH, RRR, BYD, and MLCO
Should you be buying Wyndham Hotels & Resorts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts include InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Hyatt Hotels (H), MGM Resorts International (MGM), H World Group (HTHT), Wynn Resorts (WYNN), Caesars Entertainment (CZR), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Red Rock Resorts (RRR), Boyd Gaming (BYD), and Melco Resorts & Entertainment (MLCO). These companies are all part of the "hotels & motels" industry.
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:WH) and InterContinental Hotels Group (NYSE:IHG) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
InterContinental Hotels Group has higher revenue and earnings than Wyndham Hotels & Resorts.
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InterContinental Hotels Group has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has a net margin of 17.19% compared to InterContinental Hotels Group's net margin of 0.00%. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts' return on equity of 41.83% beat InterContinental Hotels Group's return on equity.
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts presently has a consensus price target of $88.17, suggesting a potential upside of 24.56%. Given Wyndham Hotels & Resorts' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is more favorable than InterContinental Hotels Group.
In the previous week, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts had 8 more articles in the media than InterContinental Hotels Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and 4 mentions for InterContinental Hotels Group. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat InterContinental Hotels Group's score of 0.46 indicating that Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is being referred to more favorably in the media.
93.5% of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.1% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
InterContinental Hotels Group received 55 more outperform votes than Wyndham Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.48% of users gave Wyndham Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote while only 51.42% of users gave InterContinental Hotels Group an outperform vote.
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. InterContinental Hotels Group pays an annual dividend of $2.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts pays out 53.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts beats InterContinental Hotels Group on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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