WTB vs. MLC, DAL, PPH, EZH, SSTY, PHO, BARK, AHCG, IHG, and NXT
Should you be buying Whitbread stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Whitbread include Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc (MLC), Dalata Hotel Group (DAL), PPHE Hotel Group (PPH), Easyhotel (EZH), Safestay (SSTY), Peel Hotels (PHO), Barkby Group (BARK), Action Hotels (AHCG), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), and NEXT (NXT).
Whitbread vs.
Whitbread (LON:WTB) and Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc (LON:MLC) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability and earnings.
Whitbread has a net margin of 8.08% compared to Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc's net margin of 0.00%. Whitbread's return on equity of 6.83% beat Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc's return on equity.
Whitbread currently has a consensus target price of GBX 2,713.33, suggesting a potential upside of 2.47%. Given Whitbread's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Whitbread is more favorable than Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc.
Whitbread has higher revenue and earnings than Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc. Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Whitbread, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Whitbread pays an annual dividend of GBX 97 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.04 per share. Whitbread pays out 75.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc pays out 0.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Whitbread had 3 more articles in the media than Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Whitbread and 1 mentions for Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc. Whitbread's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc's score of -0.54 indicating that Whitbread is being referred to more favorably in the media.
71.9% of Whitbread shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Whitbread shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Whitbread received 682 more outperform votes than Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.93% of users gave Whitbread an outperform vote while only 58.47% of users gave Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc an outperform vote.
Summary
Whitbread beats Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:WTB) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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