Comparing Madison Square Garden (NYSE:MSGS) and Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality (NYSE:PRSU)

Madison Square Garden (NYSE:MSGS) and Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality (NYSE:PRSU) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Volatility and Risk

Madison Square Garden has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Madison Square Garden and Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Madison Square Garden	$1.03 billion	4.75	$58.77 million	$0.21	968.16
Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality	$366.49 million	2.10	$368.54 million	$12.32	2.21

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

Profitability

This table compares Madison Square Garden and Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Madison Square Garden	0.45%	-1.76%	0.34%
Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality	39.51%	33.27%	12.36%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Madison Square Garden and Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Madison Square Garden	0	1	4	0	2.80
Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality	0	0	3	0	3.00

Madison Square Garden presently has a consensus target price of $252.60, suggesting a potential upside of 24.24%. Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality has a consensus target price of $29.67, suggesting a potential upside of 8.99%. Given Madison Square Garden’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Madison Square Garden is more favorable than Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

68.9% of Madison Square Garden shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.1% of Madison Square Garden shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality beats Madison Square Garden on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. operates as a professional sports company in the United States. The company owns and operates a portfolio of assets that consists of the New York Knickerbockers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. Its other professional franchises include development league teams, the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League and the Westchester Knicks of the NBA G League. The company also owns Knicks Gaming, an esports franchise that competes in the NBA 2K League. In addition, it operates professional sports team performance centers, the Madison Square Garden Training Center in Greenburgh. The company was formerly known as The Madison Square Garden Company. Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

About Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality, Inc. engages in the provision of hospitality and leisure activities, experiential marketing, and live events. It operates through the following segments: Pursuit, Spiro, and GES Exhibitions. The Pursuit segment provides travel experiences that include recreational attractions, unique hotels and lodges, food and beverage, retail, sightseeing, and ground transportation services. The Spiro segment is an experiential marketing agency that partners with brands around the world to manage and elevate their global experiential marketing activities. The GES Exhibitions segment is a global exhibition services company that partners with exhibition and conference organizers as a full-service provider of strategic and logistics solutions to manage the complexity of their shows. The company was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.