Atour Lifestyle (ATAT) Competitors

Atour Lifestyle (NASDAQ:ATAT) and Intercontinental Hotels Group (NYSE:IHG) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.

Is ATAT or IHG more profitable?

Atour Lifestyle has a net margin of 16.39% compared to Intercontinental Hotels Group's net margin of 0.00%. Atour Lifestyle's return on equity of 43.91% beat Intercontinental Hotels Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Atour Lifestyle	16.39%	43.91%	16.64%
Intercontinental Hotels Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do analysts prefer ATAT or IHG?

Atour Lifestyle currently has a consensus target price of $36.63, suggesting a potential upside of 6.22%. Given Atour Lifestyle's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Atour Lifestyle is more favorable than Intercontinental Hotels Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Atour Lifestyle	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Intercontinental Hotels Group	2 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, ATAT or IHG?

Intercontinental Hotels Group has higher revenue and earnings than Atour Lifestyle. Intercontinental Hotels Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atour Lifestyle, 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
Atour Lifestyle	$992.96M	4.80	$174.72M	$1.26	27.37
Intercontinental Hotels Group	$4.92B	3.77	$628M	$5.64	21.35

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in ATAT or IHG?

17.8% of Atour Lifestyle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.1% of Intercontinental Hotels Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility & risk, ATAT or IHG?

Atour Lifestyle has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intercontinental Hotels Group has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor ATAT or IHG?

In the previous week, Atour Lifestyle had 4 more articles in the media than Intercontinental Hotels Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Atour Lifestyle and 6 mentions for Intercontinental Hotels Group. Atour Lifestyle's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Intercontinental Hotels Group's score of 0.35 indicating that Atour Lifestyle is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Atour Lifestyle	6 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	3 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Is ATAT or IHG a better dividend stock?

Atour Lifestyle pays an annual dividend of $0.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Intercontinental Hotels Group pays an annual dividend of $2.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Atour Lifestyle pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Intercontinental Hotels Group pays out 39.5% 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.

Summary

Atour Lifestyle beats Intercontinental Hotels Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.