IHG vs. HLT, QSR, YUMC, HTHT, ARMK, BROS, CAVA, WH, WING, and RRR
Should you be buying InterContinental Hotels Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of InterContinental Hotels Group include Hilton Worldwide (HLT), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Yum China (YUMC), H World Group (HTHT), Aramark (ARMK), Dutch Bros (BROS), CAVA Group (CAVA), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), Wingstop (WING), and Red Rock Resorts (RRR). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
InterContinental Hotels Group vs.
InterContinental Hotels Group (NYSE:IHG) and Hilton Worldwide (NYSE:HLT) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Hilton Worldwide has a net margin of 13.74% compared to InterContinental Hotels Group's net margin of 0.00%. InterContinental Hotels Group's return on equity of 0.00% beat Hilton Worldwide's return on equity.
In the previous week, Hilton Worldwide had 18 more articles in the media than InterContinental Hotels Group. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Hilton Worldwide and 10 mentions for InterContinental Hotels Group. Hilton Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat InterContinental Hotels Group's score of 0.68 indicating that Hilton Worldwide is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hilton Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than InterContinental Hotels Group. InterContinental Hotels Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hilton Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
InterContinental Hotels Group has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hilton Worldwide has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hilton Worldwide received 416 more outperform votes than InterContinental Hotels Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.92% of users gave Hilton Worldwide an outperform vote while only 51.35% of users gave InterContinental Hotels Group an outperform vote.
15.1% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.9% of Hilton Worldwide shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Hilton Worldwide shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
InterContinental Hotels Group pays an annual dividend of $2.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Hilton Worldwide pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. InterContinental Hotels Group pays out 39.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hilton Worldwide pays out 9.8% 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.
Hilton Worldwide has a consensus target price of $254.53, indicating a potential upside of 8.45%. Given Hilton Worldwide's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hilton Worldwide is more favorable than InterContinental Hotels Group.
Summary
Hilton Worldwide beats InterContinental Hotels Group on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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