BALY vs. SG, ARCO, PLYA, SHCO, CNNE, HDL, XHR, KRUS, FWRG, and PTLO
Should you be buying Bally's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bally's include Sweetgreen (SG), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Playa Hotels & Resorts (PLYA), Soho House & Co Inc. (SHCO), Cannae (CNNE), Super Hi International (HDL), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), and Portillo's (PTLO). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Bally's vs. Its Competitors
Sweetgreen (NYSE:SG) and Bally's (NYSE:BALY) are both small-cap restaurants, hotels, motels companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and risk.
In the previous week, Sweetgreen had 11 more articles in the media than Bally's. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Sweetgreen and 11 mentions for Bally's. Sweetgreen's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Bally's' score of 0.18 indicating that Sweetgreen is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sweetgreen has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bally's. Sweetgreen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bally's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sweetgreen presently has a consensus price target of $25.23, indicating a potential upside of 70.54%. Bally's has a consensus price target of $16.96, indicating a potential upside of 51.82%. Given Sweetgreen's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Sweetgreen is more favorable than Bally's.
Sweetgreen has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bally's has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.8% of Sweetgreen shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Bally's shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.5% of Sweetgreen shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 74.9% of Bally's shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sweetgreen has a net margin of -13.04% compared to Bally's' net margin of -16.95%. Sweetgreen's return on equity of -19.72% beat Bally's' return on equity.
Summary
Sweetgreen beats Bally's on 12 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:BALY) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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