LULU vs. HLT, CHTR, DKNG, EA, RCL, TCOM, TTWO, RBLX, LYV, and RCI
Should you be buying Lululemon Athletica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lululemon Athletica include Hilton Worldwide (HLT), Charter Communications (CHTR), DraftKings (DKNG), Electronic Arts (EA), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Trip.com Group (TCOM), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), Roblox (RBLX), Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), and Rogers Communications (RCI). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ:LULU) and Hilton Worldwide (NYSE:HLT) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
91.5% of Lululemon Athletica shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.7% of Hilton Worldwide shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Lululemon Athletica shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Hilton Worldwide shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lululemon Athletica has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hilton Worldwide has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lululemon Athletica currently has a consensus price target of $503.07, indicating a potential upside of 9.47%. Hilton Worldwide has a consensus price target of $186.00, indicating a potential downside of 9.93%. Given Lululemon Athletica's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lululemon Athletica is more favorable than Hilton Worldwide.
Lululemon Athletica received 1087 more outperform votes than Hilton Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.90% of users gave Hilton Worldwide an outperform vote while only 69.80% of users gave Lululemon Athletica an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Lululemon Athletica had 12 more articles in the media than Hilton Worldwide. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Lululemon Athletica and 25 mentions for Hilton Worldwide. Lululemon Athletica's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Hilton Worldwide's score of 0.59 indicating that Lululemon Athletica is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hilton Worldwide has a net margin of 11.15% compared to Lululemon Athletica's net margin of 10.89%. Lululemon Athletica's return on equity of 44.81% beat Hilton Worldwide's return on equity.
Hilton Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than Lululemon Athletica. Hilton Worldwide is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lululemon Athletica, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lululemon Athletica beats Hilton Worldwide on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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