CWH vs. FUN, MLKN, SIX, VSTO, ATGE, VZIO, HBI, CNK, BOWL, and SONO
Should you be buying Camping World stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Camping World include Cedar Fair (FUN), MillerKnoll (MLKN), Six Flags Entertainment (SIX), Vista Outdoor (VSTO), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), VIZIO (VZIO), Hanesbrands (HBI), Cinemark (CNK), Bowlero (BOWL), and Sonos (SONO). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Camping World (NYSE:CWH) and Cedar Fair (NYSE:FUN) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Camping World pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Cedar Fair pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Camping World pays out 96.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cedar Fair pays out 49.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cedar Fair is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Cedar Fair received 207 more outperform votes than Camping World when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.90% of users gave Cedar Fair an outperform vote while only 68.32% of users gave Camping World an outperform vote.
52.5% of Camping World shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.7% of Cedar Fair shares are held by institutional investors. 43.8% of Camping World shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Cedar Fair shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cedar Fair has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Camping World. Cedar Fair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Camping World, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Camping World presently has a consensus price target of $30.64, suggesting a potential upside of 42.83%. Cedar Fair has a consensus price target of $50.30, suggesting a potential upside of 31.26%. Given Camping World's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Camping World is more favorable than Cedar Fair.
In the previous week, Cedar Fair had 3 more articles in the media than Camping World. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Cedar Fair and 5 mentions for Camping World. Camping World's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Cedar Fair's score of 0.27 indicating that Camping World is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Camping World has a beta of 2.6, suggesting that its stock price is 160% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cedar Fair has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cedar Fair has a net margin of 6.96% compared to Camping World's net margin of 0.50%. Camping World's return on equity of 16.62% beat Cedar Fair's return on equity.
Summary
Cedar Fair beats Camping World on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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