Travel + Leisure (TNL) Competitors

H World Group (NASDAQ:HTHT) and Travel + Leisure (NYSE:TNL) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of HTHT or TNL?

46.4% of H World Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of Travel + Leisure shares are owned by institutional investors. 49.4% of H World Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Travel + Leisure shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts rate HTHT or TNL?

H World Group presently has a consensus target price of $50.00, indicating a potential upside of 43.47%. Travel + Leisure has a consensus target price of $54.83, indicating a potential upside of 24.65%. Given Travel + Leisure's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe H World Group is more favorable than Travel + Leisure.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
H World Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Travel + Leisure	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Is HTHT or TNL more profitable?

H World Group has a net margin of 16.47% compared to H World Group's net margin of 10.54%. Travel + Leisure's return on equity of 28.59% beat H World Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
H World Group	16.47%	28.59%	5.95%
Travel + Leisure	10.54%	-44.34%	6.31%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer HTHT or TNL?

H World Group received 465 more outperform votes than Travel + Leisure when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.12% of users gave H World Group an outperform vote while only 38.46% of users gave Travel + Leisure an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
H World Group	Outperform Votes 485 68.12%	Underperform Votes 227 31.88%
Travel + Leisure	Outperform Votes 20 38.46%	Underperform Votes 32 61.54%

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, HTHT or TNL?

H World Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Travel + Leisure. Travel + Leisure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than H World Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
H World Group	$3.08B	3.69	$575M	$1.61	21.65
Travel + Leisure	$3.75B	0.84	$396M	$5.43	8.10

Is HTHT or TNL a better dividend stock?

H World Group pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Travel + Leisure pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. H World Group pays out 37.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Travel + Leisure pays out 36.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Travel + Leisure has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Travel + Leisure is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Does the media favor HTHT or TNL?

In the previous week, H World Group had 6 more articles in the media than Travel + Leisure. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for H World Group and 3 mentions for Travel + Leisure. H World Group's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Travel + Leisure's score of 1.03 indicating that Travel + Leisure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
H World Group	6 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Travel + Leisure	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility and risk, HTHT or TNL?

H World Group has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Travel + Leisure has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

H World Group beats Travel + Leisure on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.