BALY vs. XHR, MCRI, PLYA, SHCO, MCG, GHG, FLL, CNTY, SLNA, and MSC
Should you be buying Bally's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bally's include Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Monarch Casino & Resort (MCRI), Playa Hotels & Resorts (PLYA), Soho House & Co Inc. (SHCO), Membership Collective Group (MCG), GreenTree Hospitality Group (GHG), Full House Resorts (FLL), Century Casinos (CNTY), Selina Hospitality (SLNA), and Studio City International (MSC). These companies are all part of the "hotels & motels" industry.
Bally's (NYSE:BALY) and Xenia Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:XHR) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts received 285 more outperform votes than Bally's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.36% of users gave Xenia Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote while only 32.39% of users gave Bally's an outperform vote.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a net margin of 2.09% compared to Bally's' net margin of -21.26%. Xenia Hotels & Resorts' return on equity of 1.58% beat Bally's' return on equity.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bally's. Bally's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xenia Hotels & Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bally's has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bally's presently has a consensus price target of $15.33, indicating a potential upside of 28.69%. Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a consensus price target of $15.70, indicating a potential upside of 11.82%. Given Bally's' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bally's is more favorable than Xenia Hotels & Resorts.
70.4% of Bally's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.9% of Bally's shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Xenia Hotels & Resorts had 2 more articles in the media than Bally's. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Xenia Hotels & Resorts and 1 mentions for Bally's. Bally's' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Xenia Hotels & Resorts' score of 0.64 indicating that Bally's is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Xenia Hotels & Resorts beats Bally's on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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