EXPE vs. YUMC, WBA, GME, BBY, DKS, DRI, DPZ, XPO, BURL, and CASY
Should you be buying Expedia Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Expedia Group include Yum China (YUMC), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), GameStop (GME), Best Buy (BBY), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), XPO (XPO), Burlington Stores (BURL), and Casey's General Stores (CASY).
Expedia Group (NASDAQ:EXPE) and Yum China (NYSE:YUMC) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
Expedia Group received 1004 more outperform votes than Yum China when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.37% of users gave Expedia Group an outperform vote while only 64.19% of users gave Yum China an outperform vote.
90.8% of Expedia Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.6% of Yum China shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of Expedia Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Yum China shares are held 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.
Expedia Group presently has a consensus target price of $149.12, suggesting a potential upside of 30.80%. Yum China has a consensus target price of $54.65, suggesting a potential upside of 39.41%. Given Yum China's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Yum China is more favorable than Expedia Group.
Yum China has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Expedia Group. Yum China is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Expedia Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Yum China has a net margin of 7.49% compared to Expedia Group's net margin of 6.18%. Expedia Group's return on equity of 41.63% beat Yum China's return on equity.
Expedia Group has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yum China has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Expedia Group had 13 more articles in the media than Yum China. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Expedia Group and 16 mentions for Yum China. Expedia Group's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Yum China's score of 0.32 indicating that Expedia Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Expedia Group beats Yum China on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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