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Closing price 08/1/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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IHG vs. HLT, QSR, YUMC, ARMK, HTHT, CAVA, BROS, WING, WH, and SHAK

Should you be buying Intercontinental Hotels Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intercontinental Hotels Group include Hilton Worldwide (HLT), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Yum China (YUMC), Aramark (ARMK), H World Group (HTHT), CAVA Group (CAVA), Dutch Bros (BROS), Wingstop (WING), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), and Shake Shack (SHAK). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.

Intercontinental Hotels Group vs. Its Competitors

Intercontinental Hotels Group (NYSE:IHG) and Hilton Worldwide (NYSE:HLT) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.

15.1% of Intercontinental Hotels Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.9% of Hilton Worldwide shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Hilton Worldwide shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Hilton Worldwide has a consensus price target of $259.19, suggesting a potential downside of 0.61%. Given Hilton Worldwide's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hilton Worldwide is more favorable than Intercontinental Hotels Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Intercontinental Hotels Group
2 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Hilton Worldwide
0 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.53

Hilton Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than Intercontinental Hotels Group. Intercontinental Hotels Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hilton Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Intercontinental Hotels Group$4.92B3.60$628M$5.6420.33
Hilton Worldwide$11.17B5.49$1.54B$6.5140.06

In the previous week, Hilton Worldwide had 22 more articles in the media than Intercontinental Hotels Group. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Hilton Worldwide and 5 mentions for Intercontinental Hotels Group. Intercontinental Hotels Group's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Hilton Worldwide's score of 1.15 indicating that Intercontinental Hotels Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Intercontinental Hotels Group
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Hilton Worldwide
19 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Intercontinental Hotels Group pays an annual dividend of $2.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Hilton Worldwide pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Intercontinental Hotels Group pays out 39.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hilton Worldwide pays out 9.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Hilton Worldwide has a net margin of 13.84% compared to Intercontinental Hotels Group's net margin of 0.00%. Intercontinental Hotels Group's return on equity of 0.00% beat Hilton Worldwide's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Intercontinental Hotels GroupN/A N/A N/A
Hilton Worldwide 13.84%-46.13%11.38%

Intercontinental Hotels Group has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hilton Worldwide has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Hilton Worldwide beats Intercontinental Hotels Group on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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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IHG vs. The Competition

MetricIntercontinental Hotels GroupHOTELS & MOTELS IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$17.95B$14.05B$8.10B$20.69B
Dividend Yield1.92%2.28%3.24%3.67%
P/E Ratio20.3318.4218.9129.07
Price / Sales3.604.014.2557.24
Price / Cash21.8626.3916.2522.84
Price / Book-7.874.974.784.43
Net Income$628M$462.47M$218.39M$994.22M
7 Day Performance-3.12%-3.96%-4.55%-3.35%
1 Month Performance-2.90%-2.46%38.52%-2.05%
1 Year Performance20.41%8.57%19.92%10.15%

Intercontinental Hotels Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IHG
Intercontinental Hotels Group
2.1989 of 5 stars
$114.64
-1.3%
N/A+18.3%$17.95B$4.92B20.3312,587Upcoming Earnings
HLT
Hilton Worldwide
4.1607 of 5 stars
$270.51
-1.1%
$258.56
-4.4%
+25.0%$64.36B$11.17B41.55181,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
QSR
Restaurant Brands International
4.8605 of 5 stars
$69.09
-0.7%
$76.09
+10.1%
-2.3%$22.80B$8.41B23.4237,600News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
YUMC
Yum China
4.321 of 5 stars
$46.92
-1.9%
$48.70
+3.8%
+55.5%$17.77B$11.30B19.63351,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
ARMK
Aramark
3.3571 of 5 stars
$43.45
-1.0%
$43.91
+1.1%
+27.1%$11.50B$17.40B33.42266,680Upcoming Earnings
HTHT
H World Group
4.1133 of 5 stars
$32.60
-2.0%
$40.80
+25.2%
+9.4%$10.22B$3.27B22.6428,502Positive News
CAVA
CAVA Group
4.1409 of 5 stars
$88.05
+0.0%
$115.06
+30.7%
-0.2%$10.18B$963.71M73.388,100Positive News
BROS
Dutch Bros
4.1194 of 5 stars
$59.24
-0.4%
$76.06
+28.4%
+49.5%$9.79B$1.28B151.9026,000Upcoming Earnings
WING
Wingstop
2.8849 of 5 stars
$289.44
-4.2%
$355.80
+22.9%
-2.5%$8.43B$625.81M48.481,335Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
WH
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
4.9272 of 5 stars
$91.33
-0.7%
$106.98
+17.1%
+12.0%$7.08B$1.41B21.342,200
SHAK
Shake Shack
3.9829 of 5 stars
$138.40
+0.7%
$128.68
-7.0%
+9.2%$5.86B$1.25B494.2912,826Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast

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