BOYD GAMING CORP vs MONARCH CASINO & RESORT, INC., two Hotels & Resorts stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where BYD and MCRI diverge most: on debt / equity, BYD reads 1.05 and MCRI reads 0.00; on return on assets, BYD reads 0.6% and MCRI reads 15.1%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's BYD price has a different growth bar priced in than MCRI (+3.5% implied for BYD vs +8.3% for MCRI); 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). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | BYD | MCRI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $68.95 | $114.43 |
| Market cap | $5.0B | $2.0B |
| Sector | Hotels & Resorts | Hotels & Resorts |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +3.5% | +8.3% |
| P/E | 3.1 | 19.4 |
| P/B | 2.00 | 3.69 |
| P/S | 1.22 | 3.65 |
| EV/EBITDA | 7.2 | 37.3 |
| Revenue growth | +1.8% | +5.8% |
| Gross margin | — | 25.6% |
| Operating margin | 19.4% | — |
| Net margin | 1.0% | 19.6% |
| Return on equity | 1.6% | 19.9% |
| Return on assets | 0.6% | 15.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 10.0% | — |
| FCF yield | 0.7% | 7.6% |
| Dividend yield | 1.0% | 1.1% |
| Debt / equity | 1.05 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 0.77 | 0.98 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 7.21 | 7.96 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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