Critical Analysis: Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality (PRSU) & Its Peers

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality (NYSE:PRSU) is one of 196 public 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 businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.

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	-16.46%	-155.27%	-3.47%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality and its rivals, as provided 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	955	6223	12679	331	2.61

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality presently has a consensus price target of $50.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.91%. As a group, “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies have a potential upside of 12.52%. Given Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality is more favorable than its rivals.

Risk and Volatility

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality has a beta of 2.05, indicating that its stock price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality’s rivals have a beta of 1.17, indicating that their average stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

89.9% of Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.4% of shares of all “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of shares of all “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality	$1.24 billion	$16.02 million	78.18
Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality Competitors	$21.90 billion	$590.02 million	28.30

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.

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.