HGV vs. COLM, MSGS, ASO, IQ, VFC, GOLF, IGT, PLNT, NXST, and LOPE
Should you be buying Hilton Grand Vacations stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hilton Grand Vacations include Columbia Sportswear (COLM), Madison Square Garden Sports (MSGS), Academy Sports and Outdoors (ASO), iQIYI (IQ), V.F. (VFC), Acushnet (GOLF), International Game Technology (IGT), Planet Fitness (PLNT), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), and Grand Canyon Education (LOPE). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Hilton Grand Vacations (NYSE:HGV) and Columbia Sportswear (NASDAQ:COLM) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Hilton Grand Vacations has a net margin of 7.87% compared to Columbia Sportswear's net margin of 7.20%. Hilton Grand Vacations' return on equity of 19.06% beat Columbia Sportswear's return on equity.
97.2% of Hilton Grand Vacations shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.8% of Columbia Sportswear shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Hilton Grand Vacations shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 43.0% of Columbia Sportswear shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Hilton Grand Vacations has higher revenue and earnings than Columbia Sportswear. Hilton Grand Vacations is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Columbia Sportswear, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hilton Grand Vacations has a beta of 1.93, meaning that its share price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Columbia Sportswear has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hilton Grand Vacations presently has a consensus target price of $58.57, indicating a potential upside of 41.61%. Columbia Sportswear has a consensus target price of $75.75, indicating a potential downside of 5.29%. Given Hilton Grand Vacations' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hilton Grand Vacations is more favorable than Columbia Sportswear.
In the previous week, Columbia Sportswear had 31 more articles in the media than Hilton Grand Vacations. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Columbia Sportswear and 7 mentions for Hilton Grand Vacations. Hilton Grand Vacations' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Columbia Sportswear's score of 0.46 indicating that Hilton Grand Vacations is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Columbia Sportswear received 138 more outperform votes than Hilton Grand Vacations when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.87% of users gave Hilton Grand Vacations an outperform vote while only 57.04% of users gave Columbia Sportswear an outperform vote.
Summary
Hilton Grand Vacations beats Columbia Sportswear on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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