Bally's (TRWH) Competitors

Sunstone Hotel Investors (NYSE:SHO) and Bally's (NYSE:TRWH) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SHO or TRWH?

Sunstone Hotel Investors received 491 more outperform votes than Bally's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.67% of users gave Bally's an outperform vote while only 59.43% of users gave Sunstone Hotel Investors an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Sunstone Hotel Investors	Outperform Votes 545 59.43%	Underperform Votes 372 40.57%
Bally's	Outperform Votes 54 60.67%	Underperform Votes 35 39.33%

Do analysts prefer SHO or TRWH?

Sunstone Hotel Investors presently has a consensus target price of $11.42, indicating a potential upside of 11.60%. Given Sunstone Hotel Investors' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Sunstone Hotel Investors is more favorable than Bally's.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sunstone Hotel Investors	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.57
Bally's	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has more risk & volatility, SHO or TRWH?

Sunstone Hotel Investors has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bally's has a beta of 1.89, suggesting that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is SHO or TRWH a better dividend stock?

Sunstone Hotel Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Bally's pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays out 42.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bally's pays out 22.1% 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.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in SHO or TRWH?

99.4% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.7% of Bally's shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 41.7% of Bally's shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has higher earnings & valuation, SHO or TRWH?

Sunstone Hotel Investors has higher revenue and earnings than Bally's. Bally's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sunstone Hotel Investors, 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
Sunstone Hotel Investors	$986.48M	2.08	$206.71M	$0.76	13.46
Bally's	$523.58M	1.04	$55.13M	$1.81	9.85

Is SHO or TRWH more profitable?

Sunstone Hotel Investors has a net margin of 18.61% compared to Bally's' net margin of -3.04%. Sunstone Hotel Investors' return on equity of 9.04% beat Bally's' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sunstone Hotel Investors	18.61%	9.04%	5.40%
Bally's	-3.04%	-0.85%	-0.15%

Does the media prefer SHO or TRWH?

In the previous week, Sunstone Hotel Investors had 5 more articles in the media than Bally's. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Sunstone Hotel Investors and 0 mentions for Bally's. Sunstone Hotel Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Bally's' score of 0.00 indicating that Sunstone Hotel Investors is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Sunstone Hotel Investors	Positive
Bally's	Neutral

Summary

Sunstone Hotel Investors beats Bally's on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.