BALY vs. XHR, MCRI, PLYA, SHCO, MCG, GHG, FLL, CNTY, SLNA, and MSC
Should you be buying Bally's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bally's include Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Monarch Casino & Resort (MCRI), Playa Hotels & Resorts (PLYA), Soho House & Co Inc. (SHCO), Membership Collective Group (MCG), GreenTree Hospitality Group (GHG), Full House Resorts (FLL), Century Casinos (CNTY), Selina Hospitality (SLNA), and Studio City International (MSC). These companies are all part of the "hotels & motels" industry.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:XHR) and Bally's (NYSE:BALY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bally's has a beta of 2.07, meaning that its share price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Xenia Hotels & Resorts had 1 more articles in the media than Bally's. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Xenia Hotels & Resorts and 1 mentions for Bally's. Xenia Hotels & Resorts' average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat Bally's' score of 1.77 indicating that Bally's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.4% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Bally's shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 28.9% of Bally's shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a net margin of 2.09% compared to Xenia Hotels & Resorts' net margin of -21.26%. Bally's' return on equity of 1.58% beat Xenia Hotels & Resorts' return on equity.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts received 285 more outperform votes than Bally's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.36% of users gave Xenia Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote while only 32.39% of users gave Bally's an outperform vote.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts currently has a consensus price target of $15.70, suggesting a potential upside of 10.18%. Bally's has a consensus price target of $15.33, suggesting a potential upside of 26.30%. Given Xenia Hotels & Resorts' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bally's is more favorable than Xenia Hotels & Resorts.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bally's. Bally's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xenia Hotels & Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Xenia Hotels & Resorts beats Bally's on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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