FUN vs. SIX, SGHC, RSI, GDEN, PRKS, XPOF, IGT, MSGS, MTN, and LAUR
Should you be buying Cedar Fair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cedar Fair include Six Flags Entertainment (SIX), Super Group (SGHC), Rush Street Interactive (RSI), Golden Entertainment (GDEN), United Parks & Resorts (PRKS), Xponential Fitness (XPOF), International Game Technology (IGT), Madison Square Garden Sports (MSGS), Vail Resorts (MTN), and Laureate Education (LAUR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Six Flags Entertainment (NYSE:SIX) and Cedar Fair (NYSE:FUN) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Six Flags Entertainment currently has a consensus target price of $28.23, indicating a potential upside of 7.26%. Cedar Fair has a consensus target price of $50.30, indicating a potential upside of 20.05%. Given Six Flags Entertainment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cedar Fair is more favorable than Six Flags Entertainment.
In the previous week, Cedar Fair had 5 more articles in the media than Six Flags Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Cedar Fair and 4 mentions for Six Flags Entertainment. Cedar Fair's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Six Flags Entertainment's score of 0.82 indicating that Six Flags Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cedar Fair received 54 more outperform votes than Six Flags Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.80% of users gave Cedar Fair an outperform vote while only 67.35% of users gave Six Flags Entertainment an outperform vote.
Cedar Fair has a net margin of 6.96% compared to Cedar Fair's net margin of 2.73%. Cedar Fair's return on equity of -7.31% beat Six Flags Entertainment's return on equity.
98.0% of Six Flags Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.7% of Cedar Fair shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Six Flags Entertainment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Cedar Fair shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cedar Fair has higher revenue and earnings than Six Flags Entertainment. Cedar Fair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Six Flags Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Six Flags Entertainment has a beta of 2.2, suggesting that its stock price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cedar Fair has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cedar Fair beats Six Flags Entertainment on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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