Head-To-Head Analysis: Avolta (OTCMKTS:DUFRY) vs. Atour Lifestyle (NASDAQ:ATAT)

Atour Lifestyle (NASDAQ:ATAT) and Avolta (OTCMKTS:DUFRY) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Atour Lifestyle and Avolta, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Atour Lifestyle	0	0	4	0	3.00
Avolta	0	0	0	0	0.00

Atour Lifestyle currently has a consensus price target of $36.63, indicating a potential upside of 3.14%. Given Atour Lifestyle’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Atour Lifestyle is more favorable than Avolta.

Volatility and Risk

Atour Lifestyle has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avolta has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

17.8% of Atour Lifestyle shares are held by institutional investors. 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.

Profitability

This table compares Atour Lifestyle and Avolta’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Atour Lifestyle	16.39%	43.91%	16.64%
Avolta	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Atour Lifestyle and Avolta”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Atour Lifestyle	$7.69 billion	0.64	$174.72 million	$1.26	28.18
Avolta	$15.33 billion	0.53	$117.00 million	N/A	N/A

Atour Lifestyle has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Avolta.

Summary

Atour Lifestyle beats Avolta on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Atour Lifestyle

Atour Lifestyle Holdings Limited, through its subsidiaries, develops lifestyle brands around hotel offerings in the People’s Republic of China. The company provides hotel management services, including day-to-day management services of the hotels for the franchisees; and sells hotel supplies and other products. It also offers retail management service; investment management service; financial information service management; property management services; and software and technology services, as well as operates travel agency. Atour Lifestyle Holdings Limited was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

About Avolta

Avolta AG operates as a travel retailer. The company’s retail brands include general travel retail shops under the Dufry, World Duty Free, Nuance, Hellenic Duty Free, Zurich Duty-Free or Stockholm Duty-Free, Autogrill, and HMSHost brands; Dufry shopping stores; brand boutiques; convenience stores primarily under the Hudson brand; and specialized shops and theme stores. It offers perfumes and cosmetics, food and confectionery, wines and spirits, watches and jewelry, fashion and leather, tobacco goods, souvenirs, electronics, soft drinks, packaged food, travel accessories, personal items, sunglasses, destination, and other products, as well as newspapers, magazines, and books. It operates duty-free and duty-paid shops located at airports, border, downtown and hotel shops, railway stations and other, cruise liners and ferries, seaports, and motorways in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific. The company was formerly known as Dufry AG and changed its name to Avolta AG in November 2023. Avolta AG was incorporated in 1865 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.