Atour Lifestyle (ATAT) Competitors

H World Group (NASDAQ:HTHT) and Atour Lifestyle (NASDAQ:ATAT) 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, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and community ranking.

Do insiders and institutionals believe in HTHT or ATAT?

46.4% of H World Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.8% of Atour Lifestyle shares are held by institutional investors. 49.4% of H World Group shares are held 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.

Is HTHT or ATAT a better dividend stock?

H World Group pays an annual dividend of $0.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Atour Lifestyle pays an annual dividend of $0.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. H World Group pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Atour Lifestyle pays out 36.2% 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.

Do analysts prefer HTHT or ATAT?

H World Group currently has a consensus price target of $44.68, indicating a potential upside of 23.94%. Atour Lifestyle has a consensus price target of $30.35, indicating a potential upside of 3.81%. Given H World Group's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe H World Group is more favorable than Atour Lifestyle.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
H World Group	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Atour Lifestyle	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has better valuation & earnings, HTHT or ATAT?

H World Group has higher revenue and earnings than Atour Lifestyle. H World Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atour Lifestyle, 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
H World Group	$23.30B	0.48	$575M	$1.65	21.85
Atour Lifestyle	$6.67B	0.60	$103.82M	$1.16	25.20

Is HTHT or ATAT more profitable?

Atour Lifestyle has a net margin of 17.43% compared to H World Group's net margin of 15.97%. Atour Lifestyle's return on equity of 48.26% beat H World Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
H World Group	15.97%	30.41%	6.04%
Atour Lifestyle	17.43%	48.26%	16.71%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in HTHT or ATAT?

H World Group received 480 more outperform votes than Atour Lifestyle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 87.50% of users gave Atour Lifestyle an outperform vote while only 68.02% of users gave H World Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
H World Group	Outperform Votes 487 68.02%	Underperform Votes 229 31.98%
Atour Lifestyle	Outperform Votes 7 87.50%	Underperform Votes 1 12.50%

Which has more volatility and risk, HTHT or ATAT?

H World Group has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atour Lifestyle has a beta of 0.36, meaning that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer HTHT or ATAT?

In the previous week, H World Group and H World Group both had 6 articles in the media. Atour Lifestyle's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat H World Group's score of 0.73 indicating that Atour Lifestyle is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
H World Group	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Atour Lifestyle	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

H World Group and Atour Lifestyle tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.