CNK vs. AMC, VZIO, FUN, SIX, MLKN, LAUR, MBC, CWH, SONO, and PTVE
Should you be buying Cinemark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cinemark include AMC Entertainment (AMC), VIZIO (VZIO), Cedar Fair (FUN), Six Flags Entertainment (SIX), MillerKnoll (MLKN), Laureate Education (LAUR), MasterBrand (MBC), Camping World (CWH), Sonos (SONO), and Pactiv Evergreen (PTVE). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Cinemark (NYSE:CNK) and AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings and institutional ownership.
Cinemark currently has a consensus price target of $17.40, suggesting a potential downside of 4.87%. AMC Entertainment has a consensus price target of $6.35, suggesting a potential upside of 44.48%. Given AMC Entertainment's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AMC Entertainment is more favorable than Cinemark.
Cinemark has a beta of 2.27, indicating that its stock price is 127% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMC Entertainment has a beta of 1.64, indicating that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cinemark has a net margin of 6.14% compared to AMC Entertainment's net margin of -8.24%. Cinemark's return on equity of 72.91% beat AMC Entertainment's return on equity.
In the previous week, AMC Entertainment had 37 more articles in the media than Cinemark. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for AMC Entertainment and 6 mentions for Cinemark. Cinemark's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat AMC Entertainment's score of -0.01 indicating that Cinemark is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cinemark has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AMC Entertainment. AMC Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cinemark, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
28.8% of AMC Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.0% of Cinemark shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of AMC Entertainment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
AMC Entertainment received 124 more outperform votes than Cinemark when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.96% of users gave AMC Entertainment an outperform vote while only 67.54% of users gave Cinemark an outperform vote.
Summary
Cinemark beats AMC Entertainment on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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