YUMC vs. HLT, IHG, QSR, CAVA, ARMK, HTHT, BROS, WH, WING, and RRR
Should you be buying Yum China stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yum China include Hilton Worldwide (HLT), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), CAVA Group (CAVA), Aramark (ARMK), H World Group (HTHT), Dutch Bros (BROS), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), Wingstop (WING), and Red Rock Resorts (RRR). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Yum China vs.
Hilton Worldwide (NYSE:HLT) and Yum China (NYSE:YUMC) 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 risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Hilton Worldwide currently has a consensus price target of $238.24, suggesting a potential downside of 3.92%. Yum China has a consensus price target of $49.57, suggesting a potential upside of 11.22%. Given Yum China's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Yum China is more favorable than Hilton Worldwide.
Hilton Worldwide has a net margin of 10.70% compared to Yum China's net margin of 7.97%. Yum China's return on equity of 13.39% beat Hilton Worldwide's return on equity.
Hilton Worldwide received 418 more outperform votes than Yum China when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.15% of users gave Hilton Worldwide an outperform vote while only 64.44% of users gave Yum China an outperform vote.
Hilton Worldwide has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Yum China. Yum China is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hilton Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hilton Worldwide pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Yum China pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Hilton Worldwide pays out 12.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Yum China pays out 28.3% 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.
95.9% of Hilton Worldwide shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.6% of Yum China shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Hilton Worldwide shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Yum China shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Hilton Worldwide has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yum China has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hilton Worldwide had 8 more articles in the media than Yum China. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Hilton Worldwide and 8 mentions for Yum China. Hilton Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Yum China's score of 0.27 indicating that Hilton Worldwide is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Hilton Worldwide beats Yum China on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:YUMC) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
