Head-To-Head Review: Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality (PRSU) versus Its Peers

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality (NYSE:PRSU) is one of 196 publicly-traded companies in the “Business services, not elsewhere classified” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality to related companies based on the strength of its valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality	0	0	1	0	3.00
Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality Competitors	958	6243	12716	331	2.61

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality presently has a consensus target price of $50.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.80%. As a group, “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies have a potential upside of 14.10%. Given Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality is more favorable than its rivals.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality	$1.40 billion	$16.02 million	77.04
Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality Competitors	$22.14 billion	$590.94 million	25.89

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality. Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality	2.68%	47.55%	5.49%
Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality Competitors	-16.33%	-154.67%	-3.10%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

89.9% of Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.4% of shares of all “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of shares of all “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality has a beta of 2.05, suggesting that its stock price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality’s rivals have a beta of 1.33, suggesting that their average stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality beats its rivals on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

About Pursuit Attractions & 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.