Head to Head Review: Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality (PRSU) & Its Rivals

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality and its competitors, as reported 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	969	6316	12819	338	2.61

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality presently has a consensus price target of $50.00, indicating a potential upside of 32.59%. As a group, “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies have a potential upside of 16.27%. Given Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality is more favorable than its competitors.

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality	$366.49 million	$16.02 million	3.11
Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality Competitors	$28.78 billion	$590.94 million	22.12

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality. Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable 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 insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of shares of all “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies are held by 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.

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%

Risk & Volatility

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