IQ vs. GOLF, ASAI, LOPE, VAC, PRKS, IGT, TNL, KTB, PWSC, and GHC
Should you be buying iQIYI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iQIYI include Acushnet (GOLF), Sendas Distribuidora (ASAI), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Marriott Vacations Worldwide (VAC), United Parks & Resorts (PRKS), International Game Technology (IGT), Travel + Leisure (TNL), Kontoor Brands (KTB), PowerSchool (PWSC), and Graham (GHC). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Acushnet (NYSE:GOLF) and iQIYI (NASDAQ:IQ) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Acushnet has a net margin of 8.33% compared to Acushnet's net margin of 4.76%. iQIYI's return on equity of 20.09% beat Acushnet's return on equity.
Acushnet presently has a consensus price target of $65.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.44%. iQIYI has a consensus price target of $6.54, indicating a potential upside of 54.70%. Given Acushnet's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe iQIYI is more favorable than Acushnet.
iQIYI received 137 more outperform votes than Acushnet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.95% of users gave iQIYI an outperform vote while only 52.78% of users gave Acushnet an outperform vote.
Acushnet has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iQIYI has a beta of 0.25, suggesting that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
iQIYI has higher revenue and earnings than Acushnet. iQIYI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acushnet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, iQIYI had 1 more articles in the media than Acushnet. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for iQIYI and 7 mentions for Acushnet. iQIYI's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Acushnet's score of 0.52 indicating that Acushnet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
53.1% of Acushnet shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.7% of iQIYI shares are held by institutional investors. 54.1% of Acushnet shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.8% of iQIYI shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Acushnet beats iQIYI on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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