SPHR vs. MANU, BATRA, BOWL, NGMS, ACEL, RSVR, AGAE, BREA, GPAK, and LYV
Should you be buying Sphere Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sphere Entertainment include Manchester United (MANU), Atlanta Braves (BATRA), Bowlero (BOWL), NeoGames (NGMS), Accel Entertainment (ACEL), Reservoir Media (RSVR), Allied Gaming & Entertainment (AGAE), Brera (BREA), Gamer Pakistan (GPAK), and Live Nation Entertainment (LYV). These companies are all part of the "amusement & recreation services" industry.
Sphere Entertainment (NYSE:SPHR) and Manchester United (NYSE:MANU) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
92.0% of Sphere Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.3% of Manchester United shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.5% of Sphere Entertainment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 68.6% of Manchester United shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sphere Entertainment currently has a consensus price target of $35.60, indicating a potential upside of 0.74%. Manchester United has a consensus price target of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 25.97%. Given Manchester United's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Manchester United is more favorable than Sphere Entertainment.
Manchester United received 422 more outperform votes than Sphere Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.88% of users gave Manchester United an outperform vote while only 22.22% of users gave Sphere Entertainment an outperform vote.
Sphere Entertainment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Manchester United. Manchester United is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sphere Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sphere Entertainment has a net margin of 43.36% compared to Manchester United's net margin of -1.98%. Sphere Entertainment's return on equity of 8.11% beat Manchester United's return on equity.
In the previous week, Manchester United had 12 more articles in the media than Sphere Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Manchester United and 3 mentions for Sphere Entertainment. Manchester United's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Sphere Entertainment's score of 0.52 indicating that Manchester United is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sphere Entertainment has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Manchester United has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sphere Entertainment beats Manchester United on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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