H vs. RCL, CCL, CHH, VAC, MCS, ABNB, MAR, HLT, LVS, and IHG
Should you be buying Hyatt Hotels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hyatt Hotels include Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Marriott Vacations Worldwide (VAC), Marcus (MCS), Airbnb (ABNB), Marriott International (MAR), Hilton Worldwide (HLT), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG).
Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) and Hyatt Hotels (NYSE:H) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and community ranking.
Royal Caribbean Cruises received 333 more outperform votes than Hyatt Hotels when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.30% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 58.05% of users gave Hyatt Hotels an outperform vote.
87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of Hyatt Hotels shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.5% of Hyatt Hotels shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has higher revenue and earnings than Hyatt Hotels. Royal Caribbean Cruises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hyatt Hotels, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a net margin of 14.28% compared to Royal Caribbean Cruises' net margin of 10.21%. Hyatt Hotels' return on equity of 51.54% beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.49, meaning that its stock price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hyatt Hotels has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Royal Caribbean Cruises currently has a consensus price target of $151.81, indicating a potential upside of 2.86%. Hyatt Hotels has a consensus price target of $148.31, indicating a potential upside of 2.30%. Given Hyatt Hotels' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Royal Caribbean Cruises is more favorable than Hyatt Hotels.
In the previous week, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 15 more articles in the media than Hyatt Hotels. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 9 mentions for Hyatt Hotels. Hyatt Hotels' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' score of 0.45 indicating that Royal Caribbean Cruises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Royal Caribbean Cruises pays an annual dividend of $3.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Hyatt Hotels pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Royal Caribbean Cruises pays out 40.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hyatt Hotels pays out 9.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Hyatt Hotels on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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