Cedar Fair (FUN) Competitors

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

Which has higher earnings & valuation, PLNT or FUN?

Planet Fitness has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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
Planet Fitness	$1.13B	7.46	$138.31M	$1.86	53.37
Cedar Fair	$1.82B	2.69	$124.56M	-$0.64	-76.00

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in PLNT or FUN?

Cedar Fair received 75 more outperform votes than Planet Fitness when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.87% of users gave Planet Fitness an outperform vote while only 68.69% of users gave Cedar Fair an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Planet Fitness	Outperform Votes 605 73.87%	Underperform Votes 214 26.13%
Cedar Fair	Outperform Votes 680 68.69%	Underperform Votes 310 31.31%

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

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

Is PLNT or FUN 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
Planet Fitness	14.23%	-107.97%	7.25%
Cedar Fair	0.99%	113.05%	2.41%

Does the media prefer PLNT or FUN?

In the previous week, Planet Fitness had 10 more articles in the media than Cedar Fair. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Planet Fitness and 3 mentions for Cedar Fair. Cedar Fair's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Planet Fitness' score of 1.07 indicating that Cedar Fair is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Planet Fitness	9 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Cedar Fair	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do analysts rate PLNT or FUN?

Planet Fitness presently has a consensus price target of $94.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.30%. Cedar Fair has a consensus price target of $56.07, indicating a potential upside of 15.28%. Given Cedar Fair's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cedar Fair is more favorable than Planet Fitness.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Planet Fitness	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	11 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.81
Cedar Fair	1 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	12 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.79

Which has more risk & volatility, PLNT or FUN?

Planet Fitness has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cedar Fair has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Planet Fitness beats Cedar Fair on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.