Chagee (CHA) Competitors

Intercontinental Hotels Group (NYSE:IHG) and Chagee (NASDAQ:CHA) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Do analysts rate IHG or CHA?

Chagee has a consensus price target of $40.80, indicating a potential upside of 50.94%. Given Chagee's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Chagee is more favorable than Intercontinental Hotels Group.

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

Does the MarketBeat Community favor IHG or CHA?

Intercontinental Hotels Group received 395 more outperform votes than Chagee when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 83.33% of users gave Chagee an outperform vote while only 51.28% of users gave Intercontinental Hotels Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Intercontinental Hotels Group	Outperform Votes 400 51.28%	Underperform Votes 380 48.72%
Chagee	Outperform Votes 5 83.33%	Underperform Votes 1 16.67%

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, IHG or CHA?

Intercontinental Hotels Group has higher revenue and earnings than Chagee.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Intercontinental Hotels Group	$4.92B	3.59	$628M	$5.64	20.20
Chagee	$1.70B	2.92	$344.71M	N/A	N/A

Does the media refer more to IHG or CHA?

In the previous week, Chagee had 1 more articles in the media than Intercontinental Hotels Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Chagee and 1 mentions for Intercontinental Hotels Group. Intercontinental Hotels Group's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat Chagee's score of 0.00 indicating that Intercontinental Hotels Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Intercontinental Hotels Group	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Chagee	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of IHG or CHA?

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

Is IHG or CHA more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Intercontinental Hotels Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Chagee	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Intercontinental Hotels Group beats Chagee on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.