BALY vs. SG, PLYA, ARCO, CNNE, SHCO, HDL, XHR, PLAY, MSC, and FWRG
Should you be buying Bally's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bally's include Sweetgreen (SG), Playa Hotels & Resorts (PLYA), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Cannae (CNNE), Soho House & Co Inc. (SHCO), Super Hi International (HDL), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), STUDIO CITY IH (MSC), and First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG). 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 superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Sweetgreen has a beta of 2.06, indicating that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bally's has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sweetgreen had 11 more articles in the media than Bally's. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Sweetgreen and 1 mentions for Bally's. Sweetgreen's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Bally's' score of 0.00 indicating that Sweetgreen is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sweetgreen currently has a consensus price target of $23.31, suggesting a potential upside of 57.75%. Bally's has a consensus price target of $15.25, suggesting a potential upside of 54.38%. Given Sweetgreen's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sweetgreen is more favorable than Bally's.
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 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 15 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 7/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
