FLTR vs. CPG, IHG, NXT, SKG, ENT, RNK, 888, GMR, CMX, and B90
Should you be buying Flutter Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flutter Entertainment include Compass Group (CPG), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), NEXT (NXT), Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), Entain (ENT), The Rank Group (RNK), 888 (888), Gaming Realms (GMR), Catalyst Media Group (CMX), and B90 (B90). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Flutter Entertainment (LON:FLTR) and Compass Group (LON:CPG) are both large-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
Flutter Entertainment presently has a consensus target price of £192.47, suggesting a potential upside of 18.88%. Compass Group has a consensus target price of GBX 2,367.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.62%. Given Flutter Entertainment's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Flutter Entertainment is more favorable than Compass Group.
65.2% of Flutter Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.4% of Compass Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Flutter Entertainment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Compass Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Flutter Entertainment has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compass Group has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Compass Group has higher revenue and earnings than Flutter Entertainment. Flutter Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Compass Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Compass Group received 467 more outperform votes than Flutter Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.00% of users gave Compass Group an outperform vote while only 39.35% of users gave Flutter Entertainment an outperform vote.
Compass Group has a net margin of 4.24% compared to Flutter Entertainment's net margin of -10.36%. Compass Group's return on equity of 23.82% beat Flutter Entertainment's return on equity.
Flutter Entertainment pays an annual dividend of GBX 200 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Compass Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Flutter Entertainment pays out -3,629.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Compass Group pays out 5,733.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Compass Group had 3 more articles in the media than Flutter Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Compass Group and 1 mentions for Flutter Entertainment. Flutter Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Compass Group's score of 0.41 indicating that Flutter Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Compass Group beats Flutter Entertainment on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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