Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. vs Vail Resorts, Inc., two Entertainment stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where LTH and MTN diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), LTH reads +24.0% and MTN reads -4.1%; on revenue growth, LTH reads +12.7% and MTN reads -1.3%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's LTH price has a different growth bar priced in than MTN (+24.0% implied for LTH vs -4.1% for MTN); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What LTH's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). What MTN'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 | LTH | MTN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $41.88 | $150.34 |
| Market cap | $9.5B | $5.4B |
| Sector | Entertainment | Entertainment |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +24.0% | -4.1% |
| P/E | 24.5 | 32.4 |
| P/B | 2.96 | 5.86 |
| P/S | 3.09 | 1.89 |
| EV/EBITDA | 13.4 | 11.0 |
| Revenue growth | +12.7% | -1.3% |
| Operating margin | 17.1% | 41.0% |
| Net margin | 12.5% | 5.5% |
| Return on equity | 12.0% | 17.1% |
| Return on assets | 4.8% | 2.8% |
| Return on invested capital | 7.9% | 8.3% |
| FCF yield | -1.3% | 3.3% |
| Dividend yield | — | 5.9% |
| Debt / equity | 0.47 | 3.30 |
| Current ratio | 0.53 | 0.91 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 1.57 | 1.64 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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