HAS vs. MTN, TAL, NCLH, CROX, DLB, PARA, LNW, BIRK, WSC, and CZR
Should you be buying Hasbro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hasbro include Vail Resorts (MTN), TAL Education Group (TAL), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Crocs (CROX), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), Paramount Global (PARA), Light & Wonder (LNW), Birkenstock (BIRK), WillScot Mobile Mini (WSC), and Caesars Entertainment (CZR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Vail Resorts (NYSE:MTN) and Hasbro (NASDAQ:HAS) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
Vail Resorts received 4 more outperform votes than Hasbro when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.81% of users gave Vail Resorts an outperform vote while only 57.88% of users gave Hasbro an outperform vote.
Vail Resorts pays an annual dividend of $8.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Hasbro pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Vail Resorts pays out 148.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hasbro pays out -27.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Vail Resorts has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Vail Resorts is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Vail Resorts has a net margin of 8.44% compared to Vail Resorts' net margin of -29.60%. Vail Resorts' return on equity of 25.41% beat Hasbro's return on equity.
Vail Resorts has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hasbro. Hasbro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vail Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vail Resorts has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hasbro has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Vail Resorts presently has a consensus price target of $260.11, indicating a potential upside of 35.98%. Hasbro has a consensus price target of $66.36, indicating a potential upside of 9.98%. Given Hasbro's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Vail Resorts is more favorable than Hasbro.
94.9% of Vail Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Hasbro shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Vail Resorts shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Hasbro shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Hasbro had 50 more articles in the media than Vail Resorts. MarketBeat recorded 59 mentions for Hasbro and 9 mentions for Vail Resorts. Vail Resorts' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Hasbro's score of 0.62 indicating that Hasbro is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Vail Resorts beats Hasbro on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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