GYM vs. BOWL, PHTM, TEG, TUNE, CCT, TCG, ESC, HRN, XPF, and GOAL
Should you be buying The Gym Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Gym Group include Hollywood Bowl Group (BOWL), Photo-Me International (PHTM), Ten Entertainment Group (TEG), Focusrite (TUNE), The Character Group (CCT), Thomas Cook Group (TCG), Escape Hunt (ESC), Hornby (HRN), XP Factory (XPF), and Goals Soccer Centres (GOAL). These companies are all part of the "leisure" industry.
Hollywood Bowl Group (LON:BOWL) and The Gym Group (LON:GYM) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Hollywood Bowl Group has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Gym Group has a beta of 1.61, meaning that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, The Gym Group had 6 more articles in the media than Hollywood Bowl Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for The Gym Group and 3 mentions for Hollywood Bowl Group. The Gym Group's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Hollywood Bowl Group's score of 0.10 indicating that Hollywood Bowl Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hollywood Bowl Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 410, indicating a potential upside of 23.49%. The Gym Group has a consensus target price of GBX 121, indicating a potential downside of 4.42%. Given The Gym Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Hollywood Bowl Group is more favorable than The Gym Group.
82.0% of Hollywood Bowl Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.4% of The Gym Group shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of Hollywood Bowl Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of The Gym Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
The Gym Group received 130 more outperform votes than Hollywood Bowl Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 82.57% of users gave Hollywood Bowl Group an outperform vote while only 78.90% of users gave The Gym Group an outperform vote.
Hollywood Bowl Group has a net margin of 15.88% compared to Hollywood Bowl Group's net margin of -4.12%. The Gym Group's return on equity of 23.85% beat Hollywood Bowl Group's return on equity.
Hollywood Bowl Group has higher revenue and earnings than The Gym Group. The Gym Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hollywood Bowl Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hollywood Bowl Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. The Gym Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Hollywood Bowl Group pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. The Gym Group pays out -2,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Hollywood Bowl Group beats The Gym Group on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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