WYND vs. TNL, MLCO, PENN, ATAT, WH, CHH, MCRI, BYD, PLYA, and RRR
Should you be buying Wyndham Destinations stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wyndham Destinations include Travel + Leisure (TNL), Melco Resorts & Entertainment (MLCO), PENN Entertainment (PENN), Atour Lifestyle (ATAT), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Monarch Casino & Resort (MCRI), Boyd Gaming (BYD), Playa Hotels & Resorts (PLYA), and Red Rock Resorts (RRR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Travel + Leisure (NYSE:TNL) and Wyndham Destinations (NYSE:WYND) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Travel + Leisure pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Wyndham Destinations pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Travel + Leisure pays out 37.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wyndham Destinations pays out 21.4% 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. Travel + Leisure has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Travel + Leisure is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Wyndham Destinations has higher revenue and earnings than Travel + Leisure. Wyndham Destinations is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Travel + Leisure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Travel + Leisure has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wyndham Destinations has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Travel + Leisure presently has a consensus target price of $55.86, indicating a potential upside of 22.25%. Given Wyndham Destinations' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Travel + Leisure is more favorable than Wyndham Destinations.
In the previous week, Travel + Leisure had 16 more articles in the media than Wyndham Destinations. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Travel + Leisure and 4 mentions for Wyndham Destinations. Wyndham Destinations' average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Travel + Leisure's score of 0.00 indicating that Travel + Leisure is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Travel + Leisure has a net margin of 10.59% compared to Travel + Leisure's net margin of 0.13%. Travel + Leisure's return on equity of -13.97% beat Wyndham Destinations' return on equity.
Wyndham Destinations received 118 more outperform votes than Travel + Leisure when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.99% of users gave Wyndham Destinations an outperform vote while only 38.46% of users gave Travel + Leisure an outperform vote.
87.5% of Travel + Leisure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Wyndham Destinations shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Travel + Leisure shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Wyndham Destinations shares are owned by 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.
Summary
Travel + Leisure and Wyndham Destinations tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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