H vs. RCL, CCL, CHH, VAC, MCS, ABNB, MAR, HLT, LVS, and IHG
Should you be buying Hyatt Hotels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hyatt Hotels include Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Marriott Vacations Worldwide (VAC), Marcus (MCS), Airbnb (ABNB), Marriott International (MAR), Hilton Worldwide (HLT), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG).
Hyatt Hotels (NYSE:H) and Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
Hyatt Hotels presently has a consensus price target of $148.56, indicating a potential upside of 0.33%. Royal Caribbean Cruises has a consensus price target of $147.38, indicating a potential downside of 0.71%. Given Hyatt Hotels' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hyatt Hotels is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.
In the previous week, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 10 more articles in the media than Hyatt Hotels. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 7 mentions for Hyatt Hotels. Royal Caribbean Cruises' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Hyatt Hotels' score of 0.42 indicating that Royal Caribbean Cruises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Royal Caribbean Cruises received 332 more outperform votes than Hyatt Hotels when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.25% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 58.01% of users gave Hyatt Hotels an outperform vote.
Hyatt Hotels has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.49, suggesting that its stock price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500.
71.0% of Hyatt Hotels shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.5% of Hyatt Hotels shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has higher revenue and earnings than Hyatt Hotels. Royal Caribbean Cruises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hyatt Hotels, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a net margin of 14.28% compared to Hyatt Hotels' net margin of 10.21%. Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity of 51.54% beat Hyatt Hotels' return on equity.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Hyatt Hotels on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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