ASO vs. MSGS, HGV, COLM, IGT, PWSC, VFC, IQ, LOPE, GOLF, and NXST
Should you be buying Academy Sports and Outdoors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Academy Sports and Outdoors include Madison Square Garden Sports (MSGS), Hilton Grand Vacations (HGV), Columbia Sportswear (COLM), International Game Technology (IGT), PowerSchool (PWSC), V.F. (VFC), iQIYI (IQ), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Acushnet (GOLF), and Nexstar Media Group (NXST). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Madison Square Garden Sports (NYSE:MSGS) and Academy Sports and Outdoors (NASDAQ:ASO) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
Academy Sports and Outdoors received 77 more outperform votes than Madison Square Garden Sports when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.41% of users gave Academy Sports and Outdoors an outperform vote while only 34.48% of users gave Madison Square Garden Sports an outperform vote.
Academy Sports and Outdoors has higher revenue and earnings than Madison Square Garden Sports. Academy Sports and Outdoors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Madison Square Garden Sports, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Academy Sports and Outdoors has a consensus price target of $73.82, indicating a potential upside of 24.68%. Given Madison Square Garden Sports' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Academy Sports and Outdoors is more favorable than Madison Square Garden Sports.
Academy Sports and Outdoors has a net margin of 8.43% compared to Academy Sports and Outdoors' net margin of 4.38%. Madison Square Garden Sports' return on equity of 28.99% beat Academy Sports and Outdoors' return on equity.
In the previous week, Madison Square Garden Sports had 5 more articles in the media than Academy Sports and Outdoors. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Madison Square Garden Sports and 9 mentions for Academy Sports and Outdoors. Academy Sports and Outdoors' average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Madison Square Garden Sports' score of 0.30 indicating that Madison Square Garden Sports is being referred to more favorably in the media.
68.9% of Madison Square Garden Sports shares are held by institutional investors. 22.3% of Madison Square Garden Sports shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Academy Sports and Outdoors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Madison Square Garden Sports has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Academy Sports and Outdoors has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Academy Sports and Outdoors beats Madison Square Garden Sports on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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