IHG vs. HLT, QSR, YUMC, BROS, HTHT, ARMK, WING, CAVA, WH, and CHA
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), Dutch Bros (BROS), H World Group (HTHT), Aramark (ARMK), Wingstop (WING), CAVA Group (CAVA), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), and Chagee (CHA). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
InterContinental Hotels Group vs.
Hilton Worldwide (NYSE:HLT) and InterContinental Hotels Group (NYSE:IHG) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Hilton Worldwide has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InterContinental Hotels Group has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.9% of Hilton Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.1% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Hilton Worldwide shares are held by 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.
Hilton Worldwide received 422 more outperform votes than InterContinental Hotels Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.78% of users gave Hilton Worldwide an outperform vote while only 51.28% of users gave InterContinental Hotels Group an outperform vote.
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.
In the previous week, Hilton Worldwide had 6 more articles in the media than InterContinental Hotels Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Hilton Worldwide and 5 mentions for InterContinental Hotels Group. InterContinental Hotels Group's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Hilton Worldwide's score of 0.73 indicating that InterContinental Hotels Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hilton Worldwide pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. InterContinental Hotels Group pays an annual dividend of $2.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Hilton Worldwide pays out 9.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. InterContinental Hotels Group pays out 39.4% 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 presently has a consensus price target of $245.56, indicating a potential downside of 3.24%. Given Hilton Worldwide's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Hilton Worldwide is more favorable than InterContinental Hotels Group.
Hilton Worldwide has a net margin of 13.74% 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.
Summary
Hilton Worldwide beats InterContinental Hotels Group on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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