TNL vs. YUMC, HTHT, CAVA, ARMK, BROS, PLYA, SHCO, HDL, FWRG, and BALY
Should you be buying Travel + Leisure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Travel + Leisure include Yum China (YUMC), H World Group (HTHT), CAVA Group (CAVA), Aramark (ARMK), Dutch Bros (BROS), Playa Hotels & Resorts (PLYA), Soho House & Co Inc. (SHCO), Super Hi International (HDL), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), and Bally's (BALY). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Yum China (NYSE:YUMC) and Travel + Leisure (NYSE:TNL) are both retail/wholesale 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.
Travel + Leisure has a net margin of 11.35% compared to Travel + Leisure's net margin of 7.49%. Travel + Leisure's return on equity of 11.90% beat Yum China's return on equity.
Yum China has a beta of 0.33, suggesting that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Travel + Leisure has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Yum China pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Travel + Leisure pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Yum China pays out 32.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Travel + Leisure pays out 36.8% 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.
Yum China received 367 more outperform votes than Travel + Leisure when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.19% of users gave Yum China an outperform vote while only 40.74% of users gave Travel + Leisure an outperform vote.
Yum China has higher revenue and earnings than Travel + Leisure. Travel + Leisure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yum China, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Travel + Leisure had 9 more articles in the media than Yum China. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Travel + Leisure and 8 mentions for Yum China. Travel + Leisure's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Yum China's score of 0.56 indicating that Yum China is being referred to more favorably in the media.
85.6% of Yum China shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of Travel + Leisure shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yum China shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Travel + Leisure shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Yum China presently has a consensus price target of $54.65, suggesting a potential upside of 82.11%. Travel + Leisure has a consensus price target of $56.75, suggesting a potential upside of 23.75%. Given Travel + Leisure's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Yum China is more favorable than Travel + Leisure.
Summary
Yum China beats Travel + Leisure on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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