MSGS vs. MTN, IGT, PRKS, SIX, FUN, RSI, SGHC, MSGE, GENI, and FBYD
Should you be buying Madison Square Garden Sports stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Madison Square Garden Sports include Vail Resorts (MTN), International Game Technology (IGT), United Parks & Resorts (PRKS), Six Flags Entertainment (SIX), Cedar Fair (FUN), Rush Street Interactive (RSI), Super Group (SGHC), Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE), Genius Sports (GENI), and Falcon's Beyond Global (FBYD). These companies are all part of the "miscellaneous amusement & recreation services" industry.
Vail Resorts (NYSE:MTN) and Madison Square Garden Sports (NYSE:MSGS) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking and risk.
Vail Resorts has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Madison Square Garden Sports has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Vail Resorts had 2 more articles in the media than Madison Square Garden Sports. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Vail Resorts and 9 mentions for Madison Square Garden Sports. Vail Resorts' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Madison Square Garden Sports' score of 0.36 indicating that Madison Square Garden Sports is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vail Resorts has a net margin of 9.59% compared to Vail Resorts' net margin of 2.59%. Madison Square Garden Sports' return on equity of 23.41% beat Vail Resorts' return on equity.
Vail Resorts presently has a consensus price target of $221.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.96%. Given Madison Square Garden Sports' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Vail Resorts is more favorable than Madison Square Garden Sports.
94.9% of Vail Resorts shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.9% of Madison Square Garden Sports shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Vail Resorts shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.3% of Madison Square Garden Sports shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Vail Resorts received 624 more outperform votes than Madison Square Garden Sports when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.59% of users gave Vail Resorts an outperform vote while only 34.48% of users gave Madison Square Garden Sports an outperform vote.
Vail Resorts has higher revenue and earnings than Madison Square Garden Sports. Vail Resorts is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Madison Square Garden Sports, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Vail Resorts beats Madison Square Garden Sports on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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