SNE vs. SONY, MAR, NKE, HLT, LULU, CMCSA, CHTR, DKNG, RCL, and TCOM
Should you be buying Sony stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sony include Sony Group (SONY), Marriott International (MAR), NIKE (NKE), Hilton Worldwide (HLT), Lululemon Athletica (LULU), Comcast (CMCSA), Charter Communications (CHTR), DraftKings (DKNG), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), and Trip.com Group (TCOM). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Sony Group (NYSE:SONY) and Sony (NYSE:SNE) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
Sony Group has higher revenue and earnings than Sony. Sony Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sony, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sony has a net margin of 11.34% compared to Sony's net margin of 7.95%. Sony Group's return on equity of 19.06% beat Sony's return on equity.
Sony Group pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Sony pays an annual dividend of $0.41 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Sony Group pays out 7.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sony pays out 9.7% 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. Sony Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Sony Group had 25 more articles in the media than Sony. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Sony Group and 4 mentions for Sony. Sony's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Sony Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Sony Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sony Group has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sony has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sony received 589 more outperform votes than Sony Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.60% of users gave Sony an outperform vote while only 40.54% of users gave Sony Group an outperform vote.
14.1% of Sony Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.8% of Sony shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of Sony Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Sony shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sony Group currently has a consensus target price of $108.00, indicating a potential upside of 28.96%. Given Sony's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sony Group is more favorable than Sony.
Summary
Sony Group beats Sony on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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