DIS vs. CMCSA, NKE, NFLX, SONY, MAR, HLT, DKNG, MTN, MSGS, and IGT
Should you be buying Walt Disney stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Walt Disney include Comcast (CMCSA), NIKE (NKE), Netflix (NFLX), Sony Group (SONY), Marriott International (MAR), Hilton Worldwide (HLT), DraftKings (DKNG), Vail Resorts (MTN), Madison Square Garden Sports (MSGS), and International Game Technology (IGT). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) and Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Walt Disney received 690 more outperform votes than Comcast when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.55% of users gave Comcast an outperform vote while only 71.16% of users gave Walt Disney an outperform vote.
Walt Disney presently has a consensus price target of $126.29, suggesting a potential upside of 23.32%. Comcast has a consensus price target of $49.33, suggesting a potential upside of 28.06%. Given Comcast's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Comcast is more favorable than Walt Disney.
Comcast has higher revenue and earnings than Walt Disney. Comcast is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Walt Disney, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Walt Disney had 51 more articles in the media than Comcast. MarketBeat recorded 83 mentions for Walt Disney and 32 mentions for Comcast. Comcast's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Walt Disney's score of 0.27 indicating that Comcast is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Walt Disney pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Comcast pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Walt Disney pays out 32.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Comcast pays out 32.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Walt Disney has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Comcast has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
65.7% of Walt Disney shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.3% of Comcast shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Walt Disney shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Comcast shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Comcast has a net margin of 12.64% compared to Walt Disney's net margin of 1.90%. Comcast's return on equity of 20.10% beat Walt Disney's return on equity.
Summary
Comcast beats Walt Disney on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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