CAVA vs. IHG, QSR, YUMC, BROS, HTHT, ARMK, WING, WH, RRR, and SHAK
Should you be buying CAVA Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CAVA Group include InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Yum China (YUMC), Dutch Bros (BROS), H World Group (HTHT), Aramark (ARMK), Wingstop (WING), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), Red Rock Resorts (RRR), and Shake Shack (SHAK). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
CAVA Group vs.
InterContinental Hotels Group (NYSE:IHG) and CAVA Group (NYSE:CAVA) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
InterContinental Hotels Group has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CAVA Group has a beta of 3.25, meaning that its share price is 225% more volatile than the S&P 500.
15.1% of InterContinental Hotels Group 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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, InterContinental Hotels Group had 12 more articles in the media than CAVA Group. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for InterContinental Hotels Group and 7 mentions for CAVA Group. CAVA Group's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat InterContinental Hotels Group's score of 0.58 indicating that CAVA Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CAVA Group has a net margin of 5.88% compared to InterContinental Hotels Group's net margin of 0.00%. CAVA Group's return on equity of 9.10% beat InterContinental Hotels Group's return on equity.
InterContinental Hotels Group has higher revenue and earnings than CAVA Group.
InterContinental Hotels Group received 354 more outperform votes than CAVA Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.42% of users gave CAVA Group an outperform vote while only 51.41% of users gave InterContinental Hotels Group an outperform vote.
CAVA Group has a consensus price target of $142.13, suggesting a potential upside of 19.93%. Given CAVA Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CAVA Group is more favorable than InterContinental Hotels Group.
Summary
CAVA Group beats InterContinental Hotels Group on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CAVA) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
