SPHR vs. BOWL, ACEL, NGMS, MANU, RSVR, AMWD, BYON, MSGE, GES, and LZB
Should you be buying Sphere Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sphere Entertainment include Bowlero (BOWL), Accel Entertainment (ACEL), NeoGames (NGMS), Manchester United (MANU), Reservoir Media (RSVR), American Woodmark (AMWD), Beyond (BYON), Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE), Guess? (GES), and La-Z-Boy (LZB). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Sphere Entertainment (NYSE:SPHR) and Bowlero (NYSE:BOWL) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
Sphere Entertainment has a net margin of 40.36% compared to Bowlero's net margin of 6.33%. Bowlero's return on equity of 98.75% beat Sphere Entertainment's return on equity.
92.0% of Sphere Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.1% of Bowlero shares are held by institutional investors. 24.5% of Sphere Entertainment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 56.5% of Bowlero shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sphere Entertainment has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bowlero has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sphere Entertainment presently has a consensus target price of $35.60, indicating a potential downside of 27.47%. Bowlero has a consensus target price of $19.29, indicating a potential upside of 40.77%. Given Bowlero's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bowlero is more favorable than Sphere Entertainment.
Sphere Entertainment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bowlero. Sphere Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bowlero, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bowlero had 2 more articles in the media than Sphere Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Bowlero and 4 mentions for Sphere Entertainment. Sphere Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Bowlero's score of 0.64 indicating that Sphere Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bowlero received 17 more outperform votes than Sphere Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.00% of users gave Bowlero an outperform vote while only 26.67% of users gave Sphere Entertainment an outperform vote.
Summary
Bowlero beats Sphere Entertainment on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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