Cedar Fair (FUN) Competitors

Cedar Fair (NYSE:FUN) and Planet Fitness (NYSE:PLNT) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Do analysts prefer FUN or PLNT?

Cedar Fair currently has a consensus target price of $55.92, suggesting a potential upside of 23.04%. Planet Fitness has a consensus target price of $91.81, suggesting a potential downside of 7.75%. Given Cedar Fair's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cedar Fair is more favorable than Planet Fitness.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cedar Fair	1 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	11 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.77
Planet Fitness	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	11 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.81

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, FUN or PLNT?

Planet Fitness has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cedar Fair. Cedar Fair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Planet Fitness, 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
Cedar Fair	$1.80B	2.53	$124.56M	-$0.64	-71.01
Planet Fitness	$1.07B	7.86	$138.31M	$1.86	53.51

Does the MarketBeat Community favor FUN or PLNT?

Cedar Fair received 74 more outperform votes than Planet Fitness when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.93% of users gave Planet Fitness an outperform vote while only 68.76% of users gave Cedar Fair an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Cedar Fair	Outperform Votes 678 68.76%	Underperform Votes 308 31.24%
Planet Fitness	Outperform Votes 604 73.93%	Underperform Votes 213 26.07%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of FUN or PLNT?

64.7% of Cedar Fair shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Planet Fitness shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Cedar Fair shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Planet Fitness shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is FUN or PLNT more profitable?

Planet Fitness has a net margin of 14.23% compared to Cedar Fair's net margin of 0.99%. Cedar Fair's return on equity of 113.05% beat Planet Fitness' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cedar Fair	0.99%	113.05%	2.41%
Planet Fitness	14.23%	-107.97%	7.25%

Which has more risk and volatility, FUN or PLNT?

Cedar Fair has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Planet Fitness has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer FUN or PLNT?

In the previous week, Planet Fitness had 5 more articles in the media than Cedar Fair. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Planet Fitness and 5 mentions for Cedar Fair. Cedar Fair's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Planet Fitness' score of 0.83 indicating that Cedar Fair is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Cedar Fair	3 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Planet Fitness	6 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Planet Fitness beats Cedar Fair on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.