InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) Competitors

IntegraFin (LON:IHP) and InterContinental Hotels Group (LON:IHG) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.

Do analysts rate IHP or IHG?

IntegraFin currently has a consensus target price of GBX 406.67, indicating a potential upside of 32.68%. InterContinental Hotels Group has a consensus target price of GBX 6,159, indicating a potential downside of 24.21%. Given IntegraFin's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe IntegraFin is more favorable than InterContinental Hotels Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
IntegraFin	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.75
InterContinental Hotels Group	2 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.83

Is IHP or IHG a better dividend stock?

IntegraFin pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. InterContinental Hotels Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 125 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. IntegraFin pays out 63.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. InterContinental Hotels Group pays out 41.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Which has more risk and volatility, IHP or IHG?

IntegraFin has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InterContinental Hotels Group has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, IHP or IHG?

InterContinental Hotels Group has higher revenue and earnings than IntegraFin. IntegraFin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than InterContinental Hotels Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
IntegraFin	£138.65M	7.34	£52.54M	£15.77	19.43
InterContinental Hotels Group	£5.19B	3.14	£775.45M	£304.68	26.67

Does the media favor IHP or IHG?

In the previous week, IntegraFin's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat InterContinental Hotels Group's score of 0.32 indicating that IntegraFin is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
IntegraFin	Very Positive
InterContinental Hotels Group	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer IHP or IHG?

InterContinental Hotels Group received 344 more outperform votes than IntegraFin when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.41% of users gave IntegraFin an outperform vote while only 50.29% of users gave InterContinental Hotels Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
IntegraFin	Outperform Votes 83 62.41%	Underperform Votes 50 37.59%
InterContinental Hotels Group	Outperform Votes 427 50.29%	Underperform Votes 422 49.71%

Is IHP or IHG more profitable?

IntegraFin has a net margin of 37.90% compared to InterContinental Hotels Group's net margin of 14.94%. IntegraFin's return on equity of 26.21% beat InterContinental Hotels Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
IntegraFin	37.90%	26.21%	20.29%
InterContinental Hotels Group	14.94%	-30.72%	14.12%

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in IHP or IHG?

51.5% of IntegraFin shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.8% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are held by institutional investors. 26.1% of IntegraFin shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

IntegraFin beats InterContinental Hotels Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.