PENN vs. BYD, MCRI, CZR, WYNN, RRR, TNL, MLCO, CHH, ATAT, and WH
Should you be buying PENN Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PENN Entertainment include Boyd Gaming (BYD), Monarch Casino & Resort (MCRI), Caesars Entertainment (CZR), Wynn Resorts (WYNN), Red Rock Resorts (RRR), Travel + Leisure (TNL), Melco Resorts & Entertainment (MLCO), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Atour Lifestyle (ATAT), and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH). These companies are all part of the "hotels & motels" industry.
PENN Entertainment vs.
PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ:PENN) and Boyd Gaming (NYSE:BYD) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
PENN Entertainment currently has a consensus target price of $38.65, suggesting a potential upside of 45.24%. Boyd Gaming has a consensus target price of $75.29, suggesting a potential upside of 9.28%. Given PENN Entertainment's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe PENN Entertainment is more favorable than Boyd Gaming.
PENN Entertainment has a beta of 2.22, meaning that its share price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boyd Gaming has a beta of 1.78, meaning that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500.
84.4% of PENN Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.7% of Boyd Gaming shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of PENN Entertainment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 27.9% of Boyd Gaming shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, PENN Entertainment had 14 more articles in the media than Boyd Gaming. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for PENN Entertainment and 3 mentions for Boyd Gaming. Boyd Gaming's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat PENN Entertainment's score of 0.48 indicating that Boyd Gaming is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Boyd Gaming has a net margin of 18.48% compared to PENN Entertainment's net margin of 10.52%. Boyd Gaming's return on equity of 43.15% beat PENN Entertainment's return on equity.
PENN Entertainment received 185 more outperform votes than Boyd Gaming when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.69% of users gave PENN Entertainment an outperform vote while only 60.28% of users gave Boyd Gaming an outperform vote.
Boyd Gaming has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PENN Entertainment. PENN Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Boyd Gaming, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Boyd Gaming beats PENN Entertainment on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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