SNE vs. SONY, MAR, NKE, HLT, LULU, CMCSA, CHTR, DKNG, RCL, and LVS
Should you be buying Sony stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sony include Sony Group (SONY), Marriott International (MAR), NIKE (NKE), Hilton Worldwide (HLT), Lululemon Athletica (LULU), Comcast (CMCSA), Charter Communications (CHTR), DraftKings (DKNG), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), and Las Vegas Sands (LVS). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Sony (NYSE:SNE) and Sony Group (NYSE:SONY) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Sony received 590 more outperform votes than Sony Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.60% of users gave Sony an outperform vote while only 38.89% of users gave Sony Group an outperform vote.
Sony has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sony Group has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sony Group has a consensus target price of $108.00, indicating a potential upside of 31.00%. Given Sony Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sony Group is more favorable than Sony.
7.8% of Sony shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.1% of Sony Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of Sony shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Sony Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sony pays an annual dividend of $0.41 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Sony Group pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Sony pays out 9.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sony Group pays out 7.7% 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.
In the previous week, Sony Group had 19 more articles in the media than Sony. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Sony Group and 0 mentions for Sony. Sony Group's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Sony's score of 0.00 indicating that Sony Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sony Group has higher revenue and earnings than Sony. Sony Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sony, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sony has a net margin of 11.34% compared to Sony Group's net margin of 7.62%. Sony's return on equity of 19.06% beat Sony Group's return on equity.
Summary
Sony Group beats Sony on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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