ATAT vs. YUMC, BROS, ARMK, HTHT, WING, CAVA, WH, SHAK, RRR, and CHA
Should you be buying Atour Lifestyle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atour Lifestyle include Yum China (YUMC), Dutch Bros (BROS), Aramark (ARMK), H World Group (HTHT), Wingstop (WING), CAVA Group (CAVA), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), Shake Shack (SHAK), Red Rock Resorts (RRR), and Chagee (CHA). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Atour Lifestyle vs. Its Competitors
Yum China (NYSE:YUMC) and Atour Lifestyle (NASDAQ:ATAT) are both restaurants, hotels, motels companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Atour Lifestyle has a net margin of 16.39% compared to Yum China's net margin of 8.09%. Atour Lifestyle's return on equity of 43.91% beat Yum China's return on equity.
85.6% of Yum China shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.8% of Atour Lifestyle shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Yum China shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Yum China currently has a consensus price target of $48.70, indicating a potential upside of 5.96%. Atour Lifestyle has a consensus price target of $36.63, indicating a potential upside of 10.98%. Given Atour Lifestyle's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Atour Lifestyle is more favorable than Yum China.
In the previous week, Yum China had 6 more articles in the media than Atour Lifestyle. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Yum China and 9 mentions for Atour Lifestyle. Yum China's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Atour Lifestyle's score of 0.45 indicating that Yum China is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Yum China has a beta of 0.28, indicating that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atour Lifestyle has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Yum China has higher revenue and earnings than Atour Lifestyle. Yum China is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atour Lifestyle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Yum China pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Atour Lifestyle pays an annual dividend of $0.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Yum China pays out 40.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Atour Lifestyle pays out 31.0% 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. Yum China has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Yum China is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Yum China beats Atour Lifestyle on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ATAT) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
