CNK vs. AMC, SONO, MBC, VZIO, MCW, LAUR, CABO, VSTO, SIX, and FUN
Should you be buying Cinemark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cinemark include AMC Entertainment (AMC), Sonos (SONO), MasterBrand (MBC), VIZIO (VZIO), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Laureate Education (LAUR), Cable One (CABO), Vista Outdoor (VSTO), Six Flags Entertainment (SIX), and Cedar Fair (FUN). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) and Cinemark (NYSE:CNK) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Cinemark has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AMC Entertainment. AMC Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cinemark, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AMC Entertainment presently has a consensus target price of $5.95, indicating a potential upside of 100.00%. Cinemark has a consensus target price of $20.11, indicating a potential upside of 15.38%. Given Cinemark's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AMC Entertainment is more favorable than Cinemark.
AMC Entertainment has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cinemark has a beta of 2.27, suggesting that its stock price is 127% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AMC Entertainment had 44 more articles in the media than Cinemark. MarketBeat recorded 55 mentions for AMC Entertainment and 11 mentions for Cinemark. AMC Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Cinemark's score of 0.36 indicating that Cinemark is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
28.8% of AMC Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of AMC Entertainment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Cinemark shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AMC Entertainment received 118 more outperform votes than Cinemark when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.84% of users gave AMC Entertainment an outperform vote while only 67.59% of users gave Cinemark an outperform vote.
Cinemark has a net margin of 6.14% compared to Cinemark's net margin of -8.24%. AMC Entertainment's return on equity of 72.91% beat Cinemark's return on equity.
Summary
Cinemark beats AMC Entertainment on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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