Comparing Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality (NYSE:PRSU) & Atour Lifestyle (NASDAQ:ATAT)

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

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Atour Lifestyle and Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Atour Lifestyle	$992.96 million	5.19	$174.72 million	$1.26	29.59
Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality	$366.49 million	2.86	$368.54 million	$11.55	3.21

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

17.8% of Atour Lifestyle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Atour Lifestyle and Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Atour Lifestyle	0	0	4	0	3.00
Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality	0	0	3	0	3.00

Atour Lifestyle currently has a consensus target price of $36.63, suggesting a potential downside of 1.76%. Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality has a consensus target price of $29.67, suggesting a potential downside of 19.86%. Given Atour Lifestyle’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Atour Lifestyle is more favorable than Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality.

Risk & Volatility

Atour Lifestyle has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality has a beta of 1.91, meaning that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Atour Lifestyle	16.52%	47.07%	18.03%
Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality	51.67%	21.30%	11.41%

Summary

Atour Lifestyle beats Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality on 7 of the 13 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 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.