Flight Centre (OTCMKTS:FGETF) vs. Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality (NYSE:PRSU) Critical Analysis

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

Volatility and Risk

Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flight Centre has a beta of -0.07, indicating that its share price is 107% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality and Flight Centre, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality	0	1	3	1	3.00
Flight Centre	0	0	1	1	3.50

Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality presently has a consensus price target of $34.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.47%. Given Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality is more favorable than Flight Centre.

Profitability

This table compares Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality and Flight Centre’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%
Flight Centre	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider & Institutional Ownership

89.9% of Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality and Flight Centre”s 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	2.72	$368.54 million	$12.50	2.82
Flight Centre	$1.80 billion	N/A	$70.90 million	N/A	N/A

Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Flight Centre.

Summary

Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality beats Flight Centre on 9 of the 11 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 Flight Centre

Flight Centre Travel Group Limited provides travel retailing services for the leisure and corporate sectors in Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and internationally. The company offers leisure travel services for the niche sectors, as well as mass, youth, premium, and cruise markets; and corporate travel services for organizations of various sizes across industries, as well as supplies products to its national and international network, or travel retail outlets. It also provides tour operations, hotel management, and destination management services. In addition, the company offers other travel related services, including foreign currency exchange and travel academies; recruitment marketing and bike retailing; and employee benefit services. It provides its services primarily under the Flight Centre brand, as well as other travel brands, such as Student Flights, Travel Associates, Liberty Travel, Infinity Holidays, GOGO Vacations, FCm Travel Solutions, Corporate Traveller, Stage and Screen, and cievents. The company was formerly known as Flight Centre Limited and changed its name to Flight Centre Travel Group Limited in November 2013. The company was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in South Brisbane, Australia.