SPHR vs. BOWL, NGMS, ACEL, RSVR, MANU, GES, LZB, VSCO, OSW, and AMWD
Should you be buying Sphere Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sphere Entertainment include Bowlero (BOWL), NeoGames (NGMS), Accel Entertainment (ACEL), Reservoir Media (RSVR), Manchester United (MANU), Guess? (GES), La-Z-Boy (LZB), Victoria's Secret & Co. (VSCO), OneSpaWorld (OSW), and American Woodmark (AMWD). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Bowlero (NYSE:BOWL) and Sphere Entertainment (NYSE:SPHR) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.
Bowlero currently has a consensus target price of $16.57, suggesting a potential upside of 34.73%. Sphere Entertainment has a consensus target price of $35.60, suggesting a potential downside of 6.32%. Given Sphere Entertainment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Bowlero is more favorable than Sphere Entertainment.
Bowlero has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sphere Entertainment has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bowlero had 11 more articles in the media than Sphere Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Bowlero and 15 mentions for Sphere Entertainment. Bowlero's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Sphere Entertainment's score of -0.21 indicating that Sphere Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bowlero received 25 more outperform votes than Sphere Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.36% of users gave Bowlero an outperform vote while only 22.22% of users gave Sphere Entertainment an outperform vote.
68.1% of Bowlero shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Sphere Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.5% of Bowlero shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.5% of Sphere Entertainment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sphere Entertainment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bowlero. Sphere Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bowlero, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sphere Entertainment has a net margin of 43.36% compared to Sphere Entertainment's net margin of 11.24%. Sphere Entertainment's return on equity of 330.46% beat Bowlero's return on equity.
Summary
Bowlero beats Sphere Entertainment on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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