BV vs. SPHR, GES, AMC, CAL, MCRI, GIII, EEX, PTON, AMWD, and CRSR
Should you be buying BrightView stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BrightView include Sphere Entertainment (SPHR), Guess? (GES), AMC Entertainment (AMC), Caleres (CAL), Monarch Casino & Resort (MCRI), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), Emerald (EEX), Peloton Interactive (PTON), American Woodmark (AMWD), and Corsair Gaming (CRSR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Sphere Entertainment (NYSE:SPHR) and BrightView (NYSE:BV) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Sphere Entertainment currently has a consensus price target of $35.60, indicating a potential upside of 1.08%. BrightView has a consensus price target of $11.75, indicating a potential downside of 17.54%. Given BrightView's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sphere Entertainment is more favorable than BrightView.
In the previous week, BrightView had 2 more articles in the media than Sphere Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for BrightView and 1 mentions for Sphere Entertainment. Sphere Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat BrightView's score of 0.52 indicating that BrightView is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sphere Entertainment has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BrightView has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sphere Entertainment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BrightView. Sphere Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BrightView, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sphere Entertainment has a net margin of 43.36% compared to Sphere Entertainment's net margin of 1.80%. BrightView's return on equity of 8.11% beat Sphere Entertainment's return on equity.
92.0% of Sphere Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of BrightView shares are held by institutional investors. 24.5% of Sphere Entertainment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of BrightView shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BrightView received 3 more outperform votes than Sphere Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 24.14% of users gave BrightView an outperform vote while only 22.22% of users gave Sphere Entertainment an outperform vote.
Summary
Sphere Entertainment beats BrightView on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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