CNK vs. AMC, LAUR, CABO, MBC, CENTA, VZIO, SONO, LEG, MCW, and CUK
Should you be buying Cinemark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cinemark include AMC Entertainment (AMC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Cable One (CABO), MasterBrand (MBC), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), VIZIO (VZIO), Sonos (SONO), Leggett & Platt (LEG), Mister Car Wash (MCW), and Carnival Co. & (CUK). 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 superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
Cinemark has a beta of 2.27, meaning that its share price is 127% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMC Entertainment has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AMC Entertainment received 118 more outperform votes than Cinemark when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.90% of users gave AMC Entertainment an outperform vote while only 67.59% of users gave Cinemark an outperform vote.
28.8% of AMC Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Cinemark shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of AMC Entertainment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
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.
Cinemark presently has a consensus target price of $20.11, suggesting a potential upside of 13.94%. AMC Entertainment has a consensus target price of $5.95, suggesting a potential upside of 74.49%. Given AMC Entertainment's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe AMC Entertainment is more favorable than Cinemark.
In the previous week, AMC Entertainment had 24 more articles in the media than Cinemark. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for AMC Entertainment and 18 mentions for Cinemark. AMC Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Cinemark's score of 0.40 indicating that AMC Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Cinemark beats AMC Entertainment on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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