FUN vs. MTN, MSGS, IGT, PRKS, SIX, RSI, SGHC, MSGE, FBYD, and GENI
Should you be buying Cedar Fair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cedar Fair include Vail Resorts (MTN), Madison Square Garden Sports (MSGS), International Game Technology (IGT), United Parks & Resorts (PRKS), 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 Cedar Fair (NYSE:FUN) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, community ranking and media sentiment.
Vail Resorts currently has a consensus price target of $260.11, indicating a potential upside of 37.92%. Cedar Fair has a consensus price target of $50.40, indicating a potential upside of 16.53%. Given Cedar Fair's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Vail Resorts is more favorable than Cedar Fair.
94.9% of Vail Resorts shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.7% of Cedar Fair shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Vail Resorts shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Cedar Fair shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Vail Resorts has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cedar Fair has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Vail Resorts had 11 more articles in the media than Cedar Fair. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Vail Resorts and 3 mentions for Cedar Fair. Vail Resorts' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Cedar Fair's score of 0.64 indicating that Cedar Fair is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vail Resorts has a net margin of 8.44% compared to Vail Resorts' net margin of 6.95%. Cedar Fair's return on equity of 19.16% beat Vail Resorts' return on equity.
Vail Resorts has higher revenue and earnings than Cedar Fair. Cedar Fair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vail Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cedar Fair received 23 more outperform votes than Vail Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.17% of users gave Cedar Fair an outperform vote while only 67.81% of users gave Vail Resorts an outperform vote.
Vail Resorts pays an annual dividend of $8.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Cedar Fair pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Vail Resorts pays out 148.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cedar Fair pays out 49.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Vail Resorts has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Cedar Fair has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Vail Resorts is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Vail Resorts beats Cedar Fair on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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