BOYD GAMING CORP vs H World Group Ltd, two Hotels & Resorts stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where BYD and HTHT diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), BYD reads +3.5% and HTHT reads -4.6%; on return on equity, BYD reads 1.6% and HTHT reads 39.2%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's BYD price has a different growth bar priced in than HTHT (+3.5% implied for BYD vs -4.6% for HTHT); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What BYD's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). What HTHT's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | BYD | HTHT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $68.95 | $44.17 |
| Market cap | $5.0B | $13.6B |
| Sector | Hotels & Resorts | Hotels & Resorts |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +3.5% | -4.6% |
| P/E | 3.1 | 19.2 |
| P/B | 2.00 | 7.32 |
| P/S | 1.22 | 3.75 |
| EV/EBITDA | 7.2 | 11.2 |
| Revenue growth | +1.8% | +17.6% |
| Operating margin | 19.4% | 26.9% |
| Net margin | 1.0% | 20.1% |
| Return on equity | 1.6% | 39.2% |
| Return on assets | 0.6% | 7.8% |
| Return on invested capital | 10.0% | 28.7% |
| FCF yield | 0.7% | 8.8% |
| Dividend yield | 1.0% | — |
| Debt / equity | 1.05 | 0.45 |
| Current ratio | 0.77 | 0.91 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 7.21 | 1.88 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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