TCOM vs. EA, LVS, RCL, DKNG, CHTR, TTWO, RBLX, LYV, WBD, and ONON
Should you be buying Trip.com Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trip.com Group include Electronic Arts (EA), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), DraftKings (DKNG), Charter Communications (CHTR), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), Roblox (RBLX), Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), and ON (ONON). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Trip.com Group (NASDAQ:TCOM) and Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and media sentiment.
35.4% of Trip.com Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.2% of Electronic Arts shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.0% of Trip.com Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Electronic Arts shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Trip.com Group presently has a consensus price target of $53.67, indicating a potential upside of 10.02%. Electronic Arts has a consensus price target of $147.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.26%. Given Electronic Arts' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Electronic Arts is more favorable than Trip.com Group.
Electronic Arts received 1452 more outperform votes than Trip.com Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.67% of users gave Electronic Arts an outperform vote while only 52.08% of users gave Trip.com Group an outperform vote.
Trip.com Group has a net margin of 22.43% compared to Electronic Arts' net margin of 14.09%. Electronic Arts' return on equity of 20.58% beat Trip.com Group's return on equity.
Trip.com Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Electronic Arts. Trip.com Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Electronic Arts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trip.com Group has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Electronic Arts has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Electronic Arts had 8 more articles in the media than Trip.com Group. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Electronic Arts and 10 mentions for Trip.com Group. Trip.com Group's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Electronic Arts' score of 0.77 indicating that Trip.com Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Electronic Arts beats Trip.com Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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