LGF.B vs. CNK, LAUR, CABO, CENTA, MBC, LEG, VZIO, CUK, SONO, and MCW
Should you be buying Lions Gate Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lions Gate Entertainment include Cinemark (CNK), Laureate Education (LAUR), Cable One (CABO), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), MasterBrand (MBC), Leggett & Platt (LEG), VIZIO (VZIO), Carnival Co. & (CUK), Sonos (SONO), and Mister Car Wash (MCW). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Lions Gate Entertainment (NYSE:LGF.B) and Cinemark (NYSE:CNK) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.
Lions Gate Entertainment currently has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential downside of 9.46%. Cinemark has a consensus price target of $20.11, suggesting a potential upside of 13.30%. Given Cinemark's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cinemark is more favorable than Lions Gate Entertainment.
Lions Gate Entertainment has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cinemark has a beta of 2.27, meaning that its stock price is 127% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cinemark has a net margin of 6.14% compared to Lions Gate Entertainment's net margin of -29.12%. Cinemark's return on equity of 72.91% beat Lions Gate Entertainment's return on equity.
In the previous week, Cinemark had 20 more articles in the media than Lions Gate Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Cinemark and 1 mentions for Lions Gate Entertainment. Lions Gate Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Cinemark's score of 0.65 indicating that Lions Gate Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cinemark has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lions Gate Entertainment. Lions Gate Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cinemark, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.4% of Lions Gate Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Cinemark shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cinemark received 535 more outperform votes than Lions Gate Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.56% of users gave Cinemark an outperform vote while only 66.90% of users gave Lions Gate Entertainment an outperform vote.
Summary
Cinemark beats Lions Gate Entertainment on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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