Atour Lifestyle (ATAT) Competitors

Atour Lifestyle (NASDAQ:ATAT) and Yum China (NYSE:YUMC) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation and profitability.

Is ATAT or YUMC more profitable?

Atour Lifestyle has a net margin of 17.43% compared to Yum China's net margin of 8.06%. Atour Lifestyle's return on equity of 48.26% beat Yum China's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Atour Lifestyle	17.43%	48.26%	16.71%
Yum China	8.06%	13.83%	7.88%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ATAT or YUMC?

Yum China received 389 more outperform votes than Atour Lifestyle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 83.33% of users gave Atour Lifestyle an outperform vote while only 64.35% of users gave Yum China an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Atour Lifestyle	Outperform Votes 10 83.33%	Underperform Votes 2 16.67%
Yum China	Outperform Votes 399 64.35%	Underperform Votes 221 35.65%

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

17.8% of Atour Lifestyle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.6% of Yum China shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Yum China shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts prefer ATAT or YUMC?

Atour Lifestyle currently has a consensus price target of $36.63, indicating a potential upside of 18.30%. Yum China has a consensus price target of $48.70, indicating a potential upside of 8.40%. Given Atour Lifestyle's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Atour Lifestyle is more favorable than Yum China.

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
Yum China	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	2 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.50

Does the media refer more to ATAT or YUMC?

In the previous week, Yum China had 5 more articles in the media than Atour Lifestyle. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Yum China and 1 mentions for Atour Lifestyle. Atour Lifestyle's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Yum China's score of 1.71 indicating that Atour Lifestyle is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Atour Lifestyle	Very Positive
Yum China	Very Positive

Which has more risk and volatility, ATAT or YUMC?

Atour Lifestyle has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yum China has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has better earnings & valuation, ATAT or YUMC?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Atour Lifestyle	$7.69B	0.56	$103.82M	$1.26	24.57
Yum China	$11.33B	1.48	$911M	$2.39	18.80

Is ATAT or YUMC a better dividend stock?

Atour Lifestyle pays an annual dividend of $0.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Yum China pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Atour Lifestyle pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Yum China pays out 40.2% 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 increased 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 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.