FLTR vs. PPB, ENT, WMH, GYS, PTEC, JPJ, RNK, 888, GMR, and STR
Should you be buying Flutter Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flutter Entertainment include Paddy Power Betfair (PPB), Entain (ENT), William Hill (WMH), Gamesys Group (GYS), Playtech (PTEC), JPJ Group (JPJ), The Rank Group (RNK), 888 (888), Gaming Realms (GMR), and Stride Gaming (STR). These companies are all part of the "gambling" industry.
Flutter Entertainment (LON:FLTR) and Paddy Power Betfair (LON:PPB) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Flutter Entertainment pays an annual dividend of GBX 200 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Paddy Power Betfair pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Flutter Entertainment pays out -3,424.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Paddy Power Betfair pays out 0.8% 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. Flutter Entertainment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Flutter Entertainment currently has a consensus price target of £198.72, suggesting a potential upside of 33.37%. Given Flutter Entertainment's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Flutter Entertainment is more favorable than Paddy Power Betfair.
Paddy Power Betfair has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Flutter Entertainment's net margin of -10.73%. Paddy Power Betfair's return on equity of 0.00% beat Flutter Entertainment's return on equity.
In the previous week, Flutter Entertainment had 8 more articles in the media than Paddy Power Betfair. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Flutter Entertainment and 1 mentions for Paddy Power Betfair. Flutter Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Paddy Power Betfair's score of 0.00 indicating that Flutter Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
73.6% of Flutter Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Flutter Entertainment shares are owned by company 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.
Paddy Power Betfair received 211 more outperform votes than Flutter Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.68% of users gave Paddy Power Betfair an outperform vote while only 39.91% of users gave Flutter Entertainment an outperform vote.
Paddy Power Betfair has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Flutter Entertainment. Flutter Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paddy Power Betfair, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Flutter Entertainment beats Paddy Power Betfair on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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