IHG vs. WTB, MLC, DAL, PPH, EZH, SSTY, PHO, BARK, AHCG, and CPG
Should you be buying InterContinental Hotels Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of InterContinental Hotels Group include Whitbread (WTB), Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc (MLC), Dalata Hotel Group (DAL), PPHE Hotel Group (PPH), Easyhotel (EZH), Safestay (SSTY), Peel Hotels (PHO), Barkby Group (BARK), Action Hotels (AHCG), and Compass Group (CPG).
InterContinental Hotels Group (LON:IHG) and Whitbread (LON:WTB) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Whitbread received 453 more outperform votes than InterContinental Hotels Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.76% of users gave Whitbread an outperform vote while only 50.59% of users gave InterContinental Hotels Group an outperform vote.
InterContinental Hotels Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 5,362.33, suggesting a potential downside of 31.69%. Whitbread has a consensus target price of GBX 4,283.33, suggesting a potential upside of 44.76%. Given Whitbread's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Whitbread is more favorable than InterContinental Hotels Group.
InterContinental Hotels Group has higher revenue and earnings than Whitbread. Whitbread is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than InterContinental Hotels Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
InterContinental Hotels Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 123 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Whitbread pays an annual dividend of GBX 97 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. InterContinental Hotels Group pays out 3,544.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Whitbread pays out 6,062.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
67.1% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.3% of Whitbread shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.9% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Whitbread shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
InterContinental Hotels Group has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Whitbread has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
InterContinental Hotels Group has a net margin of 20.12% compared to Whitbread's net margin of 10.54%. Whitbread's return on equity of 8.18% beat InterContinental Hotels Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Whitbread had 2 more articles in the media than InterContinental Hotels Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Whitbread and 5 mentions for InterContinental Hotels Group. InterContinental Hotels Group's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Whitbread's score of -0.06 indicating that InterContinental Hotels Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
InterContinental Hotels Group and Whitbread tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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