H vs. RCL, CCL, CHH, VAC, MCS, ABNB, MAR, HLT, LVS, and IHG
Should you be buying Hyatt Hotels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hyatt Hotels include Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Marriott Vacations Worldwide (VAC), Marcus (MCS), Airbnb (ABNB), Marriott International (MAR), Hilton Worldwide (HLT), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG).
Hyatt Hotels (NYSE:H) and Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has higher revenue and earnings than Hyatt Hotels. Royal Caribbean Cruises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hyatt Hotels, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 31 more articles in the media than Hyatt Hotels. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 23 mentions for Hyatt Hotels. Royal Caribbean Cruises' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Hyatt Hotels' score of 0.65 indicating that Royal Caribbean Cruises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hyatt Hotels presently has a consensus price target of $151.19, indicating a potential upside of 0.89%. Royal Caribbean Cruises has a consensus price target of $172.25, indicating a potential upside of 12.17%. Given Royal Caribbean Cruises' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Royal Caribbean Cruises is more favorable than Hyatt Hotels.
Hyatt Hotels has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.62, indicating that its stock price is 162% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Royal Caribbean Cruises received 340 more outperform votes than Hyatt Hotels when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.42% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 57.92% of users gave Hyatt Hotels an outperform vote.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a net margin of 14.28% compared to Hyatt Hotels' net margin of 10.21%. Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity of 51.54% beat Hyatt Hotels' return on equity.
71.0% of Hyatt Hotels shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by institutional investors. 23.5% of Hyatt Hotels shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Hyatt Hotels on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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