Hyatt Hotels (NYSE:H) and GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) Head to Head Survey

GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) and Hyatt Hotels (NYSE:H) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for GEN Restaurant Group and Hyatt Hotels, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GEN Restaurant Group	1	2	1	0	2.00
Hyatt Hotels	0	6	10	0	2.62

GEN Restaurant Group currently has a consensus price target of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 80.72%. Hyatt Hotels has a consensus price target of $197.87, suggesting a potential upside of 22.23%. Given GEN Restaurant Group’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe GEN Restaurant Group is more favorable than Hyatt Hotels.

Risk and Volatility

GEN Restaurant Group has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hyatt Hotels has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares GEN Restaurant Group and Hyatt Hotels”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
GEN Restaurant Group	$212.54 million	0.26	-$3.03 million	($0.83)	-2.00
Hyatt Hotels	$7.10 billion	2.15	-$52.00 million	$0.82	197.41

GEN Restaurant Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hyatt Hotels. GEN Restaurant Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hyatt Hotels, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares GEN Restaurant Group and Hyatt Hotels’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GEN Restaurant Group	-2.09%	-7.76%	-0.77%
Hyatt Hotels	1.10%	7.27%	1.85%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.5% of Hyatt Hotels shares are held by institutional investors. 59.1% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.6% of Hyatt Hotels shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Hyatt Hotels beats GEN Restaurant Group on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About GEN Restaurant Group

GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. operates restaurants in California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, Texas, New York, and Florida. It offers meats, poultry, and seafood. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Cerritos, California.

About Hyatt Hotels

Hyatt Hotels Corporation operates as a hospitality company in the United States and internationally. It operates through Owned and Leased Hotels, Americas Management and Franchising, ASPAC Management and Franchising, EAME Management and Franchising, and Apple Leisure Group segments. The company manages, franchises, licenses, owns, and leases portfolio of properties, consisting of full-service hotels and resorts, select service hotels, and other properties, including timeshare, fractional, residential, vacation, and condominium units. It operates its properties under the Park Hyatt, Grand Hyatt, Hyatt Regency, Hyatt, Hyatt vacation Club, Hyatt Place, Hyatt House, Hyatt Studios, UrCove, Miraval, Alila, Andaz, Thompson Hotels, Dream Hotels, Hyatt Centric, Caption by Hyatt, The Unbound Collection by Hyatt, Destination by Hyatt, JdV by Hyatt, Hyatt Ziva, Hyatt Zilara, Zoëtry Wellness & Spa Resorts, Secrets Resorts & Spas, Breathless Resorts & Spas, Dreams Resorts & Spas, Hyatt Vivid Hotel & Resorts, Alua Hotels & Resorts, Sunscape Resorts & Spas, Maison Métier, and The Barnett brand name. The company offers short-term vacation rental platform, Homes & Hideaways by World of Hyatt, that features direct booking for short-term private home rentals in the United States. It primarily serves corporations; national, state, and regional associations; specialty market accounts, including social, government, military, educational, religious, and fraternal organizations; travel agency and luxury organizations; and a group of individual consumers. It also operates World of Hyatt loyalty program, which rewards points that can be redeemed for hotel nights and other rewards. Hyatt Hotels Corporation was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.