FLTR vs. CPG, IHG, NXT, SKG, ENT, RNK, 888, GMR, B90, and CMX
Should you be buying Flutter Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flutter Entertainment include Compass Group (CPG), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), NEXT (NXT), Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), Entain (ENT), The Rank Group (RNK), 888 (888), Gaming Realms (GMR), B90 (B90), and Catalyst Media Group (CMX). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Compass Group (LON:CPG) and Flutter Entertainment (LON:FLTR) are both large-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
77.3% of Compass Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Flutter Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Compass Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Flutter Entertainment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Compass Group has higher revenue and earnings than Flutter Entertainment. Flutter Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Compass Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Compass Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 2,374, indicating a potential upside of 8.95%. Flutter Entertainment has a consensus target price of £198.72, indicating a potential upside of 34.14%. Given Compass Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Flutter Entertainment is more favorable than Compass Group.
Compass Group has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flutter Entertainment has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Flutter Entertainment had 8 more articles in the media than Compass Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Flutter Entertainment and 1 mentions for Compass Group. Flutter Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Compass Group's score of 0.11 indicating that Compass Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Compass Group has a net margin of 4.26% compared to Compass Group's net margin of -10.73%. Flutter Entertainment's return on equity of 26.61% beat Compass Group's return on equity.
Compass Group received 467 more outperform votes than Flutter Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.09% of users gave Compass Group an outperform vote while only 39.91% of users gave Flutter Entertainment an outperform vote.
Compass Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 45 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Flutter Entertainment pays an annual dividend of GBX 200 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Compass Group pays out 5,769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Flutter Entertainment pays out -3,424.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Compass Group beats Flutter Entertainment on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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