SHAK vs. IHG, YUMC, BROS, HTHT, ARMK, WING, CAVA, WH, CHA, and RRR
Should you be buying Shake Shack stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shake Shack include InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Yum China (YUMC), Dutch Bros (BROS), H World Group (HTHT), Aramark (ARMK), Wingstop (WING), CAVA Group (CAVA), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), Chagee (CHA), and Red Rock Resorts (RRR). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Shake Shack vs.
Shake Shack (NYSE:SHAK) and InterContinental Hotels Group (NYSE:IHG) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment and risk.
Shake Shack currently has a consensus price target of $115.40, suggesting a potential downside of 7.47%. Given Shake Shack's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Shake Shack is more favorable than InterContinental Hotels Group.
InterContinental Hotels Group has higher revenue and earnings than Shake Shack. InterContinental Hotels Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shake Shack, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
86.1% of Shake Shack shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.1% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.7% of Shake Shack shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Shake Shack had 24 more articles in the media than InterContinental Hotels Group. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Shake Shack and 4 mentions for InterContinental Hotels Group. InterContinental Hotels Group's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Shake Shack's score of 0.13 indicating that InterContinental Hotels Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Shake Shack has a beta of 1.77, meaning that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InterContinental Hotels Group has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Shake Shack has a net margin of 0.81% compared to InterContinental Hotels Group's net margin of 0.00%. Shake Shack's return on equity of 8.40% beat InterContinental Hotels Group's return on equity.
Shake Shack received 138 more outperform votes than InterContinental Hotels Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.53% of users gave Shake Shack an outperform vote while only 51.28% of users gave InterContinental Hotels Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Shake Shack beats InterContinental Hotels Group on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SHAK) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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