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$190.00 +2.04 (+1.08%)
Closing price 04/11/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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MSGS vs. DKNG, WMG, PLNT, LTH, SGHC, FUN, BATRA, RSI, PRKS, and MANU

Should you be buying Madison Square Garden Sports stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Madison Square Garden Sports include DraftKings (DKNG), Warner Music Group (WMG), Planet Fitness (PLNT), Life Time Group (LTH), Super Group (SGHC), Cedar Fair (FUN), Atlanta Braves (BATRA), Rush Street Interactive (RSI), United Parks & Resorts (PRKS), and Manchester United (MANU). These companies are all part of the "entertainment" industry.

Madison Square Garden Sports vs.

DraftKings (NASDAQ:DKNG) and Madison Square Garden Sports (NYSE:MSGS) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

DraftKings currently has a consensus price target of $55.04, suggesting a potential upside of 60.84%. Madison Square Garden Sports has a consensus price target of $250.00, suggesting a potential upside of 31.58%. Given DraftKings' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe DraftKings is more favorable than Madison Square Garden Sports.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
DraftKings
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
25 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.89
Madison Square Garden Sports
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, DraftKings had 7 more articles in the media than Madison Square Garden Sports. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for DraftKings and 14 mentions for Madison Square Garden Sports. DraftKings' average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Madison Square Garden Sports' score of 0.73 indicating that DraftKings is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
DraftKings
10 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Madison Square Garden Sports
8 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Madison Square Garden Sports has lower revenue, but higher earnings than DraftKings. DraftKings is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Madison Square Garden Sports, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
DraftKings$4.77B3.59-$507.29M-$1.06-32.28
Madison Square Garden Sports$1.07B4.27$58.77M$2.3780.17

Madison Square Garden Sports has a net margin of 5.33% compared to DraftKings' net margin of -10.64%. Madison Square Garden Sports' return on equity of -20.50% beat DraftKings' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
DraftKings-10.64% -48.13% -12.24%
Madison Square Garden Sports 5.33%-20.50%4.13%

DraftKings has a beta of 2.16, suggesting that its stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Madison Square Garden Sports has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.

DraftKings received 315 more outperform votes than Madison Square Garden Sports when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.00% of users gave DraftKings an outperform vote while only 40.63% of users gave Madison Square Garden Sports an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
DraftKingsOutperform Votes
328
66.00%
Underperform Votes
169
34.00%
Madison Square Garden SportsOutperform Votes
13
40.63%
Underperform Votes
19
59.38%

37.7% of DraftKings shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.9% of Madison Square Garden Sports shares are held by institutional investors. 47.1% of DraftKings shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.1% of Madison Square Garden Sports shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

DraftKings and Madison Square Garden Sports tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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MSGS vs. The Competition

MetricMadison Square Garden Sportsamusement & recreation services IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$4.56B$8.70B$7.09B$18.30B
Dividend YieldN/A3.88%3.32%4.13%
P/E Ratio80.1725.6915.8630.71
Price / Sales4.279.277.6525.88
Price / Cash79.4651.7116.4217.55
Price / Book-16.7011.914.054.25
Net Income$58.77M$260.84M$259.47M$1.02B
7 Day Performance5.34%2.08%-0.54%1.34%
1 Month Performance0.76%-6.98%-8.84%-7.29%
1 Year Performance4.47%1.61%-9.59%-1.36%

Madison Square Garden Sports Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MSGS
Madison Square Garden Sports
3.8035 of 5 stars
$190.00
+1.1%
$250.00
+31.6%
+4.1%$4.56B$1.07B80.17890
DKNG
DraftKings
4.2994 of 5 stars
$32.88
+3.8%
$54.69
+66.3%
-24.7%$16.44B$4.77B-31.024,400Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
WMG
Warner Music Group
4.1968 of 5 stars
$28.90
-2.0%
$35.76
+23.8%
-15.8%$15.04B$6.34B29.496,200News Coverage
Positive News
PLNT
Planet Fitness
3.7123 of 5 stars
$92.23
-0.4%
$101.44
+10.0%
+55.9%$7.81B$1.18B49.592,800Positive News
Gap Up
LTH
Life Time Group
3.5654 of 5 stars
$28.19
+0.6%
$35.62
+26.4%
+114.1%$6.03B$2.62B40.8530,000Positive News
SGHC
Super Group
4.2182 of 5 stars
$6.35
+6.0%
$10.20
+60.6%
+107.9%$3.16B$1.70B105.883,700Positive News
High Trading Volume
FUN
Cedar Fair
3.4954 of 5 stars
$30.01
-4.7%
$54.57
+81.9%
-20.5%$3.01B$2.71B-46.8853,050Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
BATRA
Atlanta Braves
2.3532 of 5 stars
$40.12
-2.8%
$60.00
+49.6%
-0.3%$2.48B$662.75M-54.961,240Insider Trade
News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
RSI
Rush Street Interactive
3.9634 of 5 stars
$10.53
+3.1%
$15.50
+47.2%
+70.7%$2.40B$924.08M-526.60470Insider Trade
News Coverage
Positive News
PRKS
United Parks & Resorts
3.3689 of 5 stars
$40.14
-3.8%
$61.18
+52.4%
-24.4%$2.21B$1.73B10.062,800Analyst Forecast
MANU
Manchester United
1.5851 of 5 stars
$12.51
-1.6%
$20.75
+65.9%
-6.5%$2.12B$620.67M-12.261,040Gap Down
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