SG vs. MLCO, CHA, PK, SHCO, ARCO, XHR, HDL, CNNE, FWRG, and MSC
Should you be buying Sweetgreen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sweetgreen include Melco Resorts & Entertainment (MLCO), Chagee (CHA), Park Hotels & Resorts (PK), Soho House & Co Inc. (SHCO), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Super Hi International (HDL), Cannae (CNNE), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), and Studio City Ih (MSC). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Sweetgreen vs. Its Competitors
Sweetgreen (NYSE:SG) and Melco Resorts & Entertainment (NASDAQ:MLCO) are both restaurants, hotels, motels companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
Sweetgreen presently has a consensus price target of $15.04, suggesting a potential upside of 103.74%. Melco Resorts & Entertainment has a consensus price target of $8.15, suggesting a potential downside of 2.04%. Given Sweetgreen's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Sweetgreen is more favorable than Melco Resorts & Entertainment.
Sweetgreen has a beta of 1.97, suggesting that its stock price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Melco Resorts & Entertainment has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Melco Resorts & Entertainment has higher revenue and earnings than Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Melco Resorts & Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Melco Resorts & Entertainment has a net margin of 1.15% compared to Sweetgreen's net margin of -14.29%. Melco Resorts & Entertainment's return on equity of -18.47% beat Sweetgreen's return on equity.
95.8% of Sweetgreen shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.6% of Melco Resorts & Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.8% of Sweetgreen shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.1% of Melco Resorts & Entertainment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Sweetgreen had 1 more articles in the media than Melco Resorts & Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Sweetgreen and 14 mentions for Melco Resorts & Entertainment. Melco Resorts & Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Sweetgreen's score of -0.10 indicating that Melco Resorts & Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Melco Resorts & Entertainment beats Sweetgreen on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:SG) was last updated on 10/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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