MTN vs. SIX, MSGS, IGT, PRKS, FUN, RSI, MHK, LBRDA, DLB, and LBRDK
Should you be buying Vail Resorts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vail Resorts include Six Flags Entertainment (SIX), Madison Square Garden Sports (MSGS), International Game Technology (IGT), United Parks & Resorts (PRKS), Cedar Fair (FUN), Rush Street Interactive (RSI), Mohawk Industries (MHK), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), and Liberty Broadband (LBRDK). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Vail Resorts (NYSE:MTN) and Six Flags Entertainment (NYSE:SIX) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
Vail Resorts has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Six Flags Entertainment has a beta of 2.2, suggesting that its share price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Six Flags Entertainment had 6 more articles in the media than Vail Resorts. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Six Flags Entertainment and 11 mentions for Vail Resorts. Vail Resorts' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Six Flags Entertainment's score of 0.40 indicating that Vail Resorts is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vail Resorts presently has a consensus target price of $260.11, indicating a potential upside of 27.28%. Six Flags Entertainment has a consensus target price of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.82%. Given Vail Resorts' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Vail Resorts is more favorable than Six Flags Entertainment.
Vail Resorts received 41 more outperform votes than Six Flags Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.81% of users gave Vail Resorts an outperform vote while only 66.86% of users gave Six Flags Entertainment an outperform vote.
94.9% of Vail Resorts shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of Six Flags Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Vail Resorts shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Six Flags Entertainment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Vail Resorts has higher revenue and earnings than Six Flags Entertainment. Vail Resorts is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Six Flags Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vail Resorts has a net margin of 8.44% compared to Six Flags Entertainment's net margin of 1.84%. Vail Resorts' return on equity of 19.16% beat Six Flags Entertainment's return on equity.
Summary
Vail Resorts beats Six Flags Entertainment on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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