LVS vs. ROST, ONON, WSM, WRK, MAR, FLUT, MCRI, SLNAW, CCS, and ARCO
Should you be buying Las Vegas Sands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Las Vegas Sands include Ross Stores (ROST), ON (ONON), Williams-Sonoma (WSM), WestRock (WRK), Marriott International (MAR), Flutter Entertainment (FLUT), Monarch Casino & Resort (MCRI), Selina Hospitality (SLNAW), Century Communities (CCS), and Arcos Dorados (ARCO).
Ross Stores (NASDAQ:ROST) and Las Vegas Sands (NYSE:LVS) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and media sentiment.
Las Vegas Sands received 301 more outperform votes than Ross Stores when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.32% of users gave Las Vegas Sands an outperform vote while only 64.09% of users gave Ross Stores an outperform vote.
Ross Stores pays an annual dividend of $1.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Las Vegas Sands pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Ross Stores pays out 26.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Las Vegas Sands pays out 50.0% 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. Ross Stores has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Las Vegas Sands has a net margin of 11.77% compared to Las Vegas Sands' net margin of 9.20%. Las Vegas Sands' return on equity of 41.15% beat Ross Stores' return on equity.
Ross Stores presently has a consensus target price of $155.21, indicating a potential upside of 7.55%. Las Vegas Sands has a consensus target price of $68.82, indicating a potential upside of 35.98%. Given Ross Stores' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Las Vegas Sands is more favorable than Ross Stores.
In the previous week, Las Vegas Sands had 1 more articles in the media than Ross Stores. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Las Vegas Sands and 13 mentions for Ross Stores. Las Vegas Sands' average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Ross Stores' score of 0.88 indicating that Ross Stores is being referred to more favorably in the media.
84.8% of Ross Stores shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.2% of Las Vegas Sands shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Ross Stores shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Las Vegas Sands shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ross Stores has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Las Vegas Sands has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ross Stores has higher revenue and earnings than Las Vegas Sands. Ross Stores is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Las Vegas Sands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ross Stores beats Las Vegas Sands on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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