Atour Lifestyle (ATAT) Competitors

Atour Lifestyle (NASDAQ:ATAT) and CAVA Group (NYSE:CAVA) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.

Do analysts prefer ATAT or CAVA?

Atour Lifestyle currently has a consensus price target of $28.03, indicating a potential downside of 10.25%. CAVA Group has a consensus price target of $140.60, indicating a potential upside of 30.13%. Given CAVA Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CAVA Group is more favorable than Atour Lifestyle.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Atour Lifestyle	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
CAVA Group	0 Sell rating(s)	8 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Which has more volatility and risk, ATAT or CAVA?

Atour Lifestyle has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CAVA Group has a beta of 3.25, indicating that its share price is 225% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is ATAT or CAVA more profitable?

Atour Lifestyle has a net margin of 17.43% compared to CAVA Group's net margin of 5.88%. Atour Lifestyle's return on equity of 48.26% beat CAVA Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Atour Lifestyle	17.43%	48.26%	16.71%
CAVA Group	5.88%	9.10%	5.24%

Does the media prefer ATAT or CAVA?

In the previous week, CAVA Group had 4 more articles in the media than Atour Lifestyle. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for CAVA Group and 5 mentions for Atour Lifestyle. Atour Lifestyle's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat CAVA Group's score of 1.02 indicating that Atour Lifestyle is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Atour Lifestyle	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
CAVA Group	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has better earnings and valuation, ATAT or CAVA?

Atour Lifestyle has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CAVA Group. Atour Lifestyle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CAVA Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Atour Lifestyle	$657.19M	6.54	$103.82M	$1.16	26.93
CAVA Group	$913.49M	13.55	$13.28M	$0.46	234.89

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of ATAT or CAVA?

17.8% of Atour Lifestyle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.2% of CAVA Group shares are held by institutional investors. 12.1% of CAVA Group shares are held by 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in ATAT or CAVA?

CAVA Group received 39 more outperform votes than Atour Lifestyle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Atour Lifestyle an outperform vote while only 54.76% of users gave CAVA Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Atour Lifestyle	Outperform Votes 7 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes
CAVA Group	Outperform Votes 46 54.76%	Underperform Votes 38 45.24%

Summary

CAVA Group beats Atour Lifestyle on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.