BALY vs. SG, PLYA, ARCO, HDL, SHCO, XHR, CNNE, FWRG, PTLO, and KRUS
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), Super Hi International (HDL), Soho House & Co Inc. (SHCO), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Cannae (CNNE), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Portillo's (PTLO), and Kura Sushi USA (KRUS). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Bally's vs.
Sweetgreen (NYSE:SG) and Bally's (NYSE:BALY) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
Sweetgreen has a net margin of -13.27% compared to Bally's' net margin of -30.04%. Sweetgreen's return on equity of -18.82% beat Bally's' return on equity.
95.8% of Sweetgreen shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Bally's shares are held by institutional investors. 21.5% of Sweetgreen shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 74.9% of Bally's shares are held 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 has a beta of 2.31, meaning that its stock price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bally's has a beta of 2.04, meaning that its stock price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 currently has a consensus target price of $31.00, indicating a potential upside of 141.11%. Bally's has a consensus target price of $16.96, indicating a potential upside of 63.06%. Given Sweetgreen's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Sweetgreen is more favorable than Bally's.
Sweetgreen received 18 more outperform votes than Bally's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.85% of users gave Sweetgreen an outperform vote while only 28.57% of users gave Bally's an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Sweetgreen had 14 more articles in the media than Bally's. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Sweetgreen and 6 mentions for Bally's. Sweetgreen's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Bally's' score of 0.71 indicating that Sweetgreen is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Sweetgreen beats Bally's on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BALY) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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