Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality (NYSE:PRSU) & Inspirato (NASDAQ:ISPO) Critical Analysis

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality and Inspirato, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality	0	1	3	0	2.75
Inspirato	1	0	0	0	1.00

Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality currently has a consensus price target of $33.67, indicating a potential downside of 3.67%. Given Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality is more favorable than Inspirato.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality	82.54%	17.61%	12.43%
Inspirato	-4.24%	N/A	-4.10%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

89.9% of Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.5% of Inspirato shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 50.0% of Inspirato shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality and Inspirato”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality	$366.49 million	2.70	$368.54 million	$12.50	2.80
Inspirato	$279.86 million	0.13	-$5.39 million	($0.87)	-3.20

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

Risk & Volatility

Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inspirato has a beta of 0.02, meaning that its share price is 98% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality beats Inspirato on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Inspirato

Inspirato Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a subscription-based luxury travel company. The company's portfolio includes luxury vacation homes, and accommodations at luxury hotels and resorts, as well as luxury safaris, cruises, custom-designed itineraries, and other experiences. It is involved in solving critical pain points for hospitality suppliers seeking to monetize their property with rental income. In addition, the company offers Inspirato Pass for member to book pass trips; Inspirato Club for members to book trips up to one year in advance Inspirato for Good, a platform designed to help nonprofit organizations accelerate funding results; Inspirato for Business, a business-to-business channel through which subscription and travel products are sold directly to businesses seeking to leverage luxury accommodations to recruit, retain, and reward their employees. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.