Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality (PRSU) versus Its Competitors Critical Review

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality	0	0	1	0	3.00
Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality Competitors	965	6293	12772	335	2.61

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality presently has a consensus price target of $50.00, suggesting a potential upside of 32.21%. As a group, “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies have a potential upside of 24.11%. Given Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality is more favorable than its competitors.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality	$1.40 billion	$16.02 million	75.64
Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality Competitors	$28.78 billion	$590.94 million	22.65

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

Insider and Institutional 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, 16.9% of shares of all “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality and its competitors’ 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%

Volatility & Risk

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality has a beta of 2.01, suggesting that its share price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality’s competitors have a beta of 1.48, suggesting that their average share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality beats its competitors 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.