DKNG vs. EA, RCL, CHTR, TCOM, TTWO, RBLX, LYV, RCI, WBD, and HLT
Should you be buying DraftKings stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DraftKings include Electronic Arts (EA), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Charter Communications (CHTR), Trip.com Group (TCOM), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), Roblox (RBLX), Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), Rogers Communications (RCI), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), and Hilton Worldwide (HLT). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) and DraftKings (NASDAQ:DKNG) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
Electronic Arts has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DraftKings has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its stock price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Electronic Arts received 1289 more outperform votes than DraftKings when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.72% of users gave Electronic Arts an outperform vote while only 59.30% of users gave DraftKings an outperform vote.
Electronic Arts presently has a consensus price target of $146.94, suggesting a potential upside of 10.92%. DraftKings has a consensus price target of $43.93, suggesting a potential upside of 0.93%. Given DraftKings' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Electronic Arts is more favorable than DraftKings.
Electronic Arts has higher revenue and earnings than DraftKings. DraftKings is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Electronic Arts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Electronic Arts has a net margin of 14.09% compared to Electronic Arts' net margin of -21.88%. DraftKings' return on equity of 20.58% beat Electronic Arts' return on equity.
In the previous week, Electronic Arts had 3 more articles in the media than DraftKings. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Electronic Arts and 16 mentions for DraftKings. Electronic Arts' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat DraftKings' score of 0.60 indicating that DraftKings is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
90.4% of Electronic Arts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.8% of DraftKings shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Electronic Arts shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.2% of DraftKings shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Electronic Arts beats DraftKings on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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