SHAK vs. HTHT, CAVA, BROS, ARMK, WH, WING, RRR, ATAT, HGV, and TNL
Should you be buying Shake Shack stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shake Shack include H World Group (HTHT), CAVA Group (CAVA), Dutch Bros (BROS), Aramark (ARMK), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), Wingstop (WING), Red Rock Resorts (RRR), Atour Lifestyle (ATAT), Hilton Grand Vacations (HGV), and Travel + Leisure (TNL). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Shake Shack vs.
Shake Shack (NYSE:SHAK) and H World Group (NASDAQ:HTHT) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
Shake Shack presently has a consensus price target of $124.20, suggesting a potential upside of 58.29%. H World Group has a consensus price target of $44.68, suggesting a potential upside of 33.65%. Given Shake Shack's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Shake Shack is more favorable than H World Group.
86.1% of Shake Shack shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.4% of H World Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.7% of Shake Shack shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 49.4% of H World Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Shake Shack had 22 more articles in the media than H World Group. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Shake Shack and 8 mentions for H World Group. H World Group's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Shake Shack's score of 0.35 indicating that H World Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Shake Shack has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, H World Group has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
H World Group has higher revenue and earnings than Shake Shack. H World Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shake Shack, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Shake Shack received 44 more outperform votes than H World Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.02% of users gave H World Group an outperform vote while only 51.75% of users gave Shake Shack an outperform vote.
H World Group has a net margin of 15.97% compared to Shake Shack's net margin of 0.81%. H World Group's return on equity of 30.41% beat Shake Shack's return on equity.
Summary
H World Group beats Shake Shack on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SHAK) was last updated on 4/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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