PLNT vs. LTH, OSW, LYV, RCI, K, WBD, RBLX, EDR, TKO, and FWONK
Should you be buying Planet Fitness stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Planet Fitness include Life Time Group (LTH), OneSpaWorld (OSW), Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), Rogers Communications (RCI), Kellanova (K), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Roblox (RBLX), Endeavor Group (EDR), TKO Group (TKO), and Formula One Group (FWONK).
Life Time Group (NYSE:LTH) and Planet Fitness (NYSE:PLNT) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Planet Fitness has a net margin of 13.66% compared to Planet Fitness' net margin of 3.19%. Planet Fitness' return on equity of 4.38% beat Life Time Group's return on equity.
Planet Fitness has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Life Time Group. Planet Fitness is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Life Time Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Life Time Group has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Planet Fitness has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Life Time Group presently has a consensus price target of $20.57, indicating a potential upside of 22.59%. Planet Fitness has a consensus price target of $71.86, indicating a potential upside of 12.91%. Given Planet Fitness' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Life Time Group is more favorable than Planet Fitness.
79.4% of Life Time Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Planet Fitness shares are held by institutional investors. 12.5% of Life Time Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Planet Fitness shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Life Time Group had 1 more articles in the media than Planet Fitness. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Life Time Group and 8 mentions for Planet Fitness. Life Time Group's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Planet Fitness' score of 0.29 indicating that Planet Fitness is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Planet Fitness received 572 more outperform votes than Life Time Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.74% of users gave Planet Fitness an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Life Time Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Planet Fitness beats Life Time Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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