DIS vs. NKE, CMCSA, NFLX, SONY, CHTR, ATVI, MAR, DKNG, MTN, and IGT
Should you be buying Walt Disney stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Walt Disney include NIKE (NKE), Comcast (CMCSA), Netflix (NFLX), Sony Group (SONY), Charter Communications (CHTR), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Marriott International (MAR), DraftKings (DKNG), Vail Resorts (MTN), and International Game Technology (IGT). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Walt Disney vs.
NIKE (NYSE:NKE) and Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
NIKE has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Walt Disney has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NIKE currently has a consensus price target of $129.18, indicating a potential upside of 1.29%. Walt Disney has a consensus price target of $128.74, indicating a potential upside of 17.53%. Given Walt Disney's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Walt Disney is more favorable than NIKE.
In the previous week, Walt Disney had 51 more articles in the media than NIKE. MarketBeat recorded 61 mentions for Walt Disney and 10 mentions for NIKE. Walt Disney's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat NIKE's score of 0.10 indicating that Walt Disney is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NIKE has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Walt Disney. NIKE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Walt Disney, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
63.2% of NIKE shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.2% of Walt Disney shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of NIKE shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Walt Disney 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.
NIKE has a net margin of 11.47% compared to Walt Disney's net margin of 3.80%. NIKE's return on equity of 36.83% beat Walt Disney's return on equity.
NIKE received 375 more outperform votes than Walt Disney when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.41% of users gave NIKE an outperform vote while only 71.95% of users gave Walt Disney an outperform vote.
Summary
NIKE beats Walt Disney on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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