Cedar Fair (FUN) Competitors

Warner Music Group (NASDAQ:WMG) and Cedar Fair (NYSE:FUN) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.

Which has more risk and volatility, WMG or FUN?

Warner Music Group has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cedar Fair has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, WMG or FUN?

Warner Music Group has higher revenue and earnings than Cedar Fair. Cedar Fair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Warner Music Group, 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
Warner Music Group	$6.43B	2.44	$435M	$0.83	36.43
Cedar Fair	$1.80B	2.47	$124.56M	-$0.64	-69.16

Do analysts recommend WMG or FUN?

Warner Music Group presently has a consensus price target of $35.31, suggesting a potential upside of 16.77%. Cedar Fair has a consensus price target of $56.21, suggesting a potential upside of 27.01%. Given Cedar Fair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cedar Fair is more favorable than Warner Music Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Warner Music Group	2 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	9 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.44
Cedar Fair	1 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	12 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.79

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in WMG or FUN?

Cedar Fair received 627 more outperform votes than Warner Music Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.65% of users gave Cedar Fair an outperform vote while only 40.91% of users gave Warner Music Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Warner Music Group	Outperform Votes 54 40.91%	Underperform Votes 78 59.09%
Cedar Fair	Outperform Votes 681 68.65%	Underperform Votes 311 31.35%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in WMG or FUN?

96.9% of Warner Music Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.7% of Cedar Fair shares are held by institutional investors. 73.4% of Warner Music Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Cedar Fair shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is WMG or FUN more profitable?

Warner Music Group has a net margin of 6.77% compared to Cedar Fair's net margin of 0.99%. Cedar Fair's return on equity of 113.05% beat Warner Music Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Warner Music Group	6.77%	69.29%	4.87%
Cedar Fair	0.99%	113.05%	2.41%

Does the media favor WMG or FUN?

In the previous week, Warner Music Group had 5 more articles in the media than Cedar Fair. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Warner Music Group and 4 mentions for Cedar Fair. Cedar Fair's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Warner Music Group's score of 0.26 indicating that Cedar Fair is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Warner Music Group	1 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	3 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
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

Is WMG or FUN a better dividend stock?

Warner Music Group pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Cedar Fair pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Warner Music Group pays out 86.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cedar Fair pays out -93.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Warner Music Group and Cedar Fair tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.