H vs. RCL, CCL, CHH, VAC, MCS, ABNB, MAR, HLT, LVS, and IHG
Should you be buying Hyatt Hotels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hyatt Hotels include Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Marriott Vacations Worldwide (VAC), Marcus (MCS), Airbnb (ABNB), Marriott International (MAR), Hilton Worldwide (HLT), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG).
Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) and Hyatt Hotels (NYSE:H) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Royal Caribbean Cruises received 333 more outperform votes than Hyatt Hotels when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.30% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 58.05% of users gave Hyatt Hotels an outperform vote.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has higher revenue and earnings than Hyatt Hotels. Royal Caribbean Cruises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hyatt Hotels, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a net margin of 14.28% compared to Royal Caribbean Cruises' net margin of 10.21%. Hyatt Hotels' return on equity of 51.54% beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity.
87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of Hyatt Hotels shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.5% of Hyatt Hotels shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 12 more articles in the media than Hyatt Hotels. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 12 mentions for Hyatt Hotels. Hyatt Hotels' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' score of 0.43 indicating that Royal Caribbean Cruises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.49, indicating that its stock price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hyatt Hotels has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Royal Caribbean Cruises presently has a consensus target price of $151.81, indicating a potential upside of 2.80%. Hyatt Hotels has a consensus target price of $148.31, indicating a potential upside of 0.57%. Given Hyatt Hotels' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Royal Caribbean Cruises is more favorable than Hyatt Hotels.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Hyatt Hotels on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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