InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) Competitors

IntegraFin (LON:IHP) and InterContinental Hotels Group (LON:IHG) are both restaurants, hotels, motels companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.

Do analysts recommend IHP or IHG?

IntegraFin presently has a consensus target price of GBX 433.75, suggesting a potential upside of 15.36%. InterContinental Hotels Group has a consensus target price of GBX 7,199, suggesting a potential downside of 22.99%. 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)	0 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
InterContinental Hotels Group	1 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.20

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of IHP or IHG?

48.7% of IntegraFin shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.4% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are held by institutional investors. 14.5% of IntegraFin shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has higher valuation & earnings, IHP or IHG?

InterContinental Hotels Group has higher revenue and earnings than IntegraFin. InterContinental Hotels Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IntegraFin, 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	£151.70M	8.21	£52.54M	£14.60	25.75
InterContinental Hotels Group	£5.12B	2.77	£775.45M	£472.10	19.80

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%

Is IHP or IHG a better dividend stock?

IntegraFin pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. InterContinental Hotels Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 164.83 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. IntegraFin pays out 0.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. InterContinental Hotels Group pays out 34.9% 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.

Does the media prefer IHP or IHG?

In the previous week, InterContinental Hotels Group had 4 more articles in the media than IntegraFin. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for InterContinental Hotels Group and 8 mentions for IntegraFin. IntegraFin's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat InterContinental Hotels Group's score of 0.42 indicating that IntegraFin is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
IntegraFin	3 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
InterContinental Hotels Group	2 Very Positive mention(s)	5 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has more risk & volatility, IHP or IHG?

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

Summary

IntegraFin beats InterContinental Hotels Group on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.