CNTY vs. LOCO, CVEO, GHG, MRNO, FLL, GENK, THCH, STKS, HCHL, and LVO
Should you be buying Century Casinos stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Century Casinos include El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Civeo (CVEO), GreenTree Hospitality Group (GHG), Murano Global BV (MRNO), Full House Resorts (FLL), GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), TH International (THCH), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), Happy City (HCHL), and LiveOne (LVO). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Century Casinos vs. Its Competitors
Century Casinos (NASDAQ:CNTY) and El Pollo Loco (NASDAQ:LOCO) are both small-cap restaurants, hotels, motels companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
Century Casinos currently has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 90.11%. El Pollo Loco has a consensus target price of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 88.28%. Given Century Casinos' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Century Casinos is more favorable than El Pollo Loco.
Century Casinos has a beta of 2, meaning that its stock price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, El Pollo Loco has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, El Pollo Loco had 5 more articles in the media than Century Casinos. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for El Pollo Loco and 1 mentions for Century Casinos. El Pollo Loco's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Century Casinos' score of 0.09 indicating that El Pollo Loco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
66.4% of Century Casinos shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.0% of Century Casinos shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
El Pollo Loco has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Century Casinos. Century Casinos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than El Pollo Loco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
El Pollo Loco has a net margin of 5.15% compared to Century Casinos' net margin of -18.43%. El Pollo Loco's return on equity of 9.83% beat Century Casinos' return on equity.
Summary
El Pollo Loco beats Century Casinos on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CNTY) was last updated on 10/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
