WING vs. IHG, QSR, YUMC, CAVA, BROS, HTHT, ARMK, WH, RRR, and SHAK
Should you be buying Wingstop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wingstop include InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Yum China (YUMC), CAVA Group (CAVA), Dutch Bros (BROS), H World Group (HTHT), Aramark (ARMK), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), Red Rock Resorts (RRR), and Shake Shack (SHAK). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Wingstop vs.
InterContinental Hotels Group (NYSE:IHG) and Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Wingstop has a net margin of 17.05% compared to InterContinental Hotels Group's net margin of 0.00%. InterContinental Hotels Group's return on equity of 0.00% beat Wingstop's return on equity.
Wingstop has a consensus target price of $367.05, indicating a potential upside of 48.55%. Given Wingstop's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Wingstop is more favorable than InterContinental Hotels Group.
In the previous week, Wingstop had 30 more articles in the media than InterContinental Hotels Group. MarketBeat recorded 50 mentions for Wingstop and 20 mentions for InterContinental Hotels Group. InterContinental Hotels Group's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Wingstop's score of 0.02 indicating that InterContinental Hotels Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
InterContinental Hotels Group pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Wingstop pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Wingstop pays out 31.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
InterContinental Hotels Group has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wingstop has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
15.1% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Wingstop shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Wingstop received 199 more outperform votes than InterContinental Hotels Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.63% of users gave Wingstop an outperform vote while only 51.41% of users gave InterContinental Hotels Group an outperform vote.
InterContinental Hotels Group has higher revenue and earnings than Wingstop.
Summary
Wingstop beats InterContinental Hotels Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:WING) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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