PENN vs. MCRI, BYD, CZR, ATAT, TNL, MLCO, PLYA, MSC, RRR, and CHH
Should you be buying PENN Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PENN Entertainment include Monarch Casino & Resort (MCRI), Boyd Gaming (BYD), Caesars Entertainment (CZR), Atour Lifestyle (ATAT), Travel + Leisure (TNL), Melco Resorts & Entertainment (MLCO), Playa Hotels & Resorts (PLYA), Studio City International (MSC), Red Rock Resorts (RRR), and Choice Hotels International (CHH). These companies are all part of the "hotels & motels" industry.
Monarch Casino & Resort (NASDAQ:MCRI) and PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ:PENN) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Monarch Casino & Resort presently has a consensus price target of $73.33, suggesting a potential upside of 8.96%. PENN Entertainment has a consensus price target of $24.50, suggesting a potential upside of 53.80%. Given Monarch Casino & Resort's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PENN Entertainment is more favorable than Monarch Casino & Resort.
Monarch Casino & Resort has a net margin of 16.40% compared to Monarch Casino & Resort's net margin of -17.77%. PENN Entertainment's return on equity of 17.13% beat Monarch Casino & Resort's return on equity.
Monarch Casino & Resort has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PENN Entertainment has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Monarch Casino & Resort has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PENN Entertainment. PENN Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Monarch Casino & Resort, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PENN Entertainment had 22 more articles in the media than Monarch Casino & Resort. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for PENN Entertainment and 1 mentions for Monarch Casino & Resort. PENN Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat Monarch Casino & Resort's score of 0.54 indicating that Monarch Casino & Resort is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PENN Entertainment received 478 more outperform votes than Monarch Casino & Resort when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.38% of users gave PENN Entertainment an outperform vote while only 65.47% of users gave Monarch Casino & Resort an outperform vote.
62.4% of Monarch Casino & Resort shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.7% of PENN Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 24.9% of Monarch Casino & Resort shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of PENN Entertainment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Monarch Casino & Resort and PENN Entertainment tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PENN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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