TCOM vs. LVS, EA, RCL, DKNG, CHTR, TTWO, RBLX, LYV, ONON, and RCI
Should you be buying Trip.com Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trip.com Group include Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Electronic Arts (EA), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), DraftKings (DKNG), Charter Communications (CHTR), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), Roblox (RBLX), Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), ON (ONON), and Rogers Communications (RCI). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Trip.com Group (NASDAQ:TCOM) and Las Vegas Sands (NYSE:LVS) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Las Vegas Sands had 6 more articles in the media than Trip.com Group. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Las Vegas Sands and 9 mentions for Trip.com Group. Trip.com Group's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Las Vegas Sands' score of 0.42 indicating that Trip.com Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Trip.com Group presently has a consensus price target of $53.67, suggesting a potential upside of 0.71%. Las Vegas Sands has a consensus price target of $63.46, suggesting a potential upside of 35.69%. Given Las Vegas Sands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Las Vegas Sands is more favorable than Trip.com Group.
Trip.com Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Las Vegas Sands. Las Vegas Sands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trip.com Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
35.4% of Trip.com Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.2% of Las Vegas Sands shares are held by institutional investors. 23.0% of Trip.com Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Las Vegas Sands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Trip.com Group has a net margin of 22.43% compared to Las Vegas Sands' net margin of 13.99%. Las Vegas Sands' return on equity of 42.34% beat Trip.com Group's return on equity.
Trip.com Group has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Las Vegas Sands has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Las Vegas Sands received 1194 more outperform votes than Trip.com Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.45% of users gave Las Vegas Sands an outperform vote while only 52.08% of users gave Trip.com Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Las Vegas Sands beats Trip.com Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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