TCOM vs. RCL, LVS, EA, DKNG, CHTR, LULU, TTWO, ONON, LYV, and K
Should you be buying Trip.com Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trip.com Group include Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Electronic Arts (EA), DraftKings (DKNG), Charter Communications (CHTR), Lululemon Athletica (LULU), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), ON (ONON), Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), and Kellanova (K). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) and Trip.com Group (NASDAQ:TCOM) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.49, meaning that its stock price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trip.com Group has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has higher revenue and earnings than Trip.com Group. Royal Caribbean Cruises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trip.com Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trip.com Group has a net margin of 22.43% compared to Trip.com Group's net margin of 14.28%. Trip.com Group's return on equity of 51.54% beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity.
Royal Caribbean Cruises received 861 more outperform votes than Trip.com Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.25% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 52.05% of users gave Trip.com Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 19 more articles in the media than Trip.com Group. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 11 mentions for Trip.com Group. Trip.com Group's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' score of 0.48 indicating that Royal Caribbean Cruises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.4% of Trip.com Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.0% of Trip.com Group 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.
Royal Caribbean Cruises currently has a consensus price target of $147.38, suggesting a potential upside of 3.84%. Trip.com Group has a consensus price target of $54.70, suggesting a potential downside of 3.75%. Given Trip.com Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Royal Caribbean Cruises is more favorable than Trip.com Group.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Trip.com Group on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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