Century Casinos (NASDAQ:CNTY) & Flutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) Financial Survey

Century Casinos (NASDAQ:CNTY) and Flutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Century Casinos and Flutter Entertainment”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Century Casinos	$572.76 million	0.08	-$128.17 million	($3.53)	-0.43
Flutter Entertainment	$15.44 billion	2.19	$43.00 million	($1.30)	-148.53

Flutter Entertainment has higher revenue and earnings than Century Casinos. Flutter Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Century Casinos, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

66.4% of Century Casinos shares are held by institutional investors. 13.0% of Century Casinos shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Flutter Entertainment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Century Casinos and Flutter Entertainment, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Century Casinos	1	0	5	0	2.67
Flutter Entertainment	2	5	16	1	2.67

Century Casinos presently has a consensus target price of $4.75, indicating a potential upside of 210.46%. Flutter Entertainment has a consensus target price of $317.67, indicating a potential upside of 64.52%. Given Century Casinos’ higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Century Casinos is more favorable than Flutter Entertainment.

Profitability

This table compares Century Casinos and Flutter Entertainment’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Century Casinos	-18.43%	-72.39%	-5.03%
Flutter Entertainment	2.96%	12.15%	4.68%

Volatility & Risk

Century Casinos has a beta of 1.96, indicating that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flutter Entertainment has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Flutter Entertainment beats Century Casinos on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Century Casinos

Century Casinos, Inc. operates as a casino entertainment company in the United States, Canada, and Poland. It develops and operates gaming establishments, as well as related lodging, restaurant, and horse racing including, off-track betting; and entertainment facilities. The company was founded in 1992 and is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

About Flutter Entertainment

Flutter Entertainment plc operates as a sports betting and gaming company in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, the United States, Italy, and internationally. The company operates through four segments: UK & Ireland, Australia, International, and US. It offers sports betting, iGaming, daily fantasy sports, online racing wagering, and TV broadcasting products; sportsbooks and exchange sports betting products, and gaming products; and online sports betting. In addition, it provides online poker, casino, and rummy. Further, it provides sports betting and gaming services through paddypower.com, betfair.com, sportsbet.com.au, tvg.com, us.betfair.com, fanduel.com, adjarabet.com, pokerstars.com, Skybet.com, tombola.com, sisal.com, and maxbet.rs websites under the FanDuel, Sky Betting & Gaming, Sportsbet, PokerStars, Paddy Power, Sisal, tombola, Betfair, MaxBet, TVG, Stardust, Junglee Games, and Adjarabet brands, as well as live poker tours and events. The company was formerly known as Paddy Power Betfair plc and changed its name to Flutter Entertainment plc in 2019. Flutter Entertainment plc was incorporated in 1958 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.