Park Hotels & Resorts (PK) Competitors

Park Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:PK) and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:WH) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment and risk.

Do insiders and institutionals believe in PK or WH?

92.7% of Park Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Park Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts shares are owned 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.

Do analysts recommend PK or WH?

Park Hotels & Resorts presently has a consensus price target of $14.60, suggesting a potential upside of 42.09%. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has a consensus price target of $109.81, suggesting a potential upside of 25.92%. Given Park Hotels & Resorts' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Park Hotels & Resorts is more favorable than Wyndham Hotels & Resorts.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Park Hotels & Resorts	1 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.27
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	11 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.92

Is PK or WH a better dividend stock?

Park Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Park Hotels & Resorts pays out 99.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts pays out 38.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Park Hotels & Resorts has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years.

Which has higher earnings & valuation, PK or WH?

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Park Hotels & Resorts. Park Hotels & Resorts is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Park Hotels & Resorts	$2.60B	0.80	$97M	$1.01	10.17
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts	$1.42B	4.76	$289M	$4.22	20.67

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PK or WH?

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts received 76 more outperform votes than Park Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.84% of users gave Wyndham Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote while only 53.14% of users gave Park Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Park Hotels & Resorts	Outperform Votes 296 53.14%	Underperform Votes 261 46.86%
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts	Outperform Votes 372 62.84%	Underperform Votes 220 37.16%

Which has more risk and volatility, PK or WH?

Park Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.75, suggesting that its stock price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to PK or WH?

In the previous week, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts had 7 more articles in the media than Park Hotels & Resorts. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and 16 mentions for Park Hotels & Resorts. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Park Hotels & Resorts' score of 0.84 indicating that Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Park Hotels & Resorts	7 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts	9 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	9 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is PK or WH more profitable?

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has a net margin of 20.51% compared to Park Hotels & Resorts' net margin of 8.16%. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts' return on equity of 54.86% beat Park Hotels & Resorts' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Park Hotels & Resorts	8.16%	5.63%	2.27%
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts	20.51%	54.86%	8.37%

Summary

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts beats Park Hotels & Resorts on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.