POOL vs. NWS, FWONA, FOXA, EDU, NWSA, SNA, PARAA, MGM, H, and FOX
Should you be buying Pool stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pool include News (NWS), Formula One Group (FWONA), FOX (FOXA), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), News (NWSA), Snap-on (SNA), Paramount Global (PARAA), MGM Resorts International (MGM), Hyatt Hotels (H), and FOX (FOX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
News (NASDAQ:NWS) and Pool (NASDAQ:POOL) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and valuation.
Pool has lower revenue, but higher earnings than News. Pool is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than News, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pool has a net margin of 9.44% compared to Pool's net margin of 2.29%. News' return on equity of 37.94% beat Pool's return on equity.
In the previous week, Pool had 76 more articles in the media than News. MarketBeat recorded 78 mentions for Pool and 2 mentions for News. Pool's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat News' score of -0.05 indicating that News is being referred to more favorably in the media.
News has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pool has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Pool received 118 more outperform votes than News when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.99% of users gave Pool an outperform vote while only 60.68% of users gave News an outperform vote.
News pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Pool pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. News pays out 50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pool pays out 33.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Pool has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Pool is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Pool has a consensus price target of $397.80, indicating a potential upside of 7.17%. Given News' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Pool is more favorable than News.
14.6% of News shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of Pool shares are held by institutional investors. 13.7% of News shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Pool shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Pool beats News on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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