IHG vs. WTB, NXT, SKG, JD, SMDS, ENT, MKS, BKG, TW, and HWDN
Should you be buying InterContinental Hotels Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of InterContinental Hotels Group include Whitbread (WTB), NEXT (NXT), Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), JD Sports Fashion (JD), DS Smith (SMDS), Entain (ENT), Marks and Spencer Group (MKS), The Berkeley Group (BKG), Taylor Wimpey (TW), and Howden Joinery Group (HWDN). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Whitbread (LON:WTB) and InterContinental Hotels Group (LON:IHG) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
In the previous week, InterContinental Hotels Group had 4 more articles in the media than Whitbread. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for InterContinental Hotels Group and 1 mentions for Whitbread. InterContinental Hotels Group's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Whitbread's score of 0.53 indicating that Whitbread is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Whitbread received 450 more outperform votes than InterContinental Hotels Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.69% of users gave Whitbread an outperform vote while only 50.65% of users gave InterContinental Hotels Group an outperform vote.
Whitbread pays an annual dividend of GBX 84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. InterContinental Hotels Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 121 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Whitbread pays out 4,970.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. InterContinental Hotels Group pays out 3,457.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
InterContinental Hotels Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Whitbread. Whitbread 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.
Whitbread currently has a consensus target price of GBX 4,154, indicating a potential upside of 34.65%. InterContinental Hotels Group has a consensus target price of GBX 6,415, indicating a potential downside of 18.16%. Given InterContinental Hotels Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Whitbread is more favorable than InterContinental Hotels Group.
68.3% of Whitbread shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.6% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Whitbread shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Whitbread has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InterContinental Hotels Group has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
InterContinental Hotels Group has a net margin of 34.66% compared to InterContinental Hotels Group's net margin of 11.85%. InterContinental Hotels Group's return on equity of 8.31% beat Whitbread's return on equity.
Summary
Whitbread and InterContinental Hotels Group tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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