WYND vs. MLCO, TNL, ATAT, BYD, PENN, RRR, WH, CHH, MCRI, and PLYA
Should you be buying Wyndham Destinations stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wyndham Destinations include Melco Resorts & Entertainment (MLCO), Travel + Leisure (TNL), Atour Lifestyle (ATAT), Boyd Gaming (BYD), PENN Entertainment (PENN), Red Rock Resorts (RRR), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Monarch Casino & Resort (MCRI), and Playa Hotels & Resorts (PLYA). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Melco Resorts & Entertainment (NASDAQ:MLCO) and Wyndham Destinations (NYSE:WYND) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
Melco Resorts & Entertainment has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wyndham Destinations has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wyndham Destinations has higher revenue and earnings than Melco Resorts & Entertainment. Melco Resorts & Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wyndham Destinations, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
39.6% of Melco Resorts & Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Wyndham Destinations shares are owned by institutional investors. 57.1% of Melco Resorts & Entertainment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Wyndham Destinations shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Melco Resorts & Entertainment had 4 more articles in the media than Wyndham Destinations. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Melco Resorts & Entertainment and 6 mentions for Wyndham Destinations. Wyndham Destinations' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Melco Resorts & Entertainment's score of 0.00 indicating that Melco Resorts & Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Melco Resorts & Entertainment received 431 more outperform votes than Wyndham Destinations when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.99% of users gave Wyndham Destinations an outperform vote while only 62.39% of users gave Melco Resorts & Entertainment an outperform vote.
Melco Resorts & Entertainment presently has a consensus target price of $13.82, indicating a potential upside of 76.05%. Given Wyndham Destinations' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Melco Resorts & Entertainment is more favorable than Wyndham Destinations.
Wyndham Destinations has a net margin of 0.13% compared to Wyndham Destinations' net margin of -4.34%. Wyndham Destinations' return on equity of -7.61% beat Melco Resorts & Entertainment's return on equity.
Summary
Wyndham Destinations beats Melco Resorts & Entertainment on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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