MELCO RESORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED vs Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc., two Hotels & Resorts stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Melco operates Macau casinos, Wyndham franchises US hotels, and by coincidence they price almost identically, 34.87 times earnings for Melco against 34.66 for Wyndham, with matching $6.5B and $6.6B caps. The similarity ends there. Wyndham's fee model produces a 13.4% net margin against Melco's 3.58%, while Melco generates far more free cash, a 12.68% yield versus 4.59%. Wyndham pays the larger dividend, 1.88% against 1.02%. Same price, same size, but Wyndham earns steadier margins on franchise contracts while Melco pulls heavier cash from crowded gaming floors. Buyers pick between fee stability and casino cash.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | MLCO | WH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.49 | $78.52 |
| Market cap | $6.6B | $6.0B |
| Sector | Hotels & Resorts | Hotels & Resorts |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +7.9% | +12.7% |
| P/E | 35.6 | 31.2 |
| P/B | — | 13.32 |
| P/S | 1.28 | 4.13 |
| EV/EBITDA | 10.8 | 18.2 |
| Revenue growth | +45.2% | +1.6% |
| Operating margin | 11.6% | 34.9% |
| Net margin | 3.6% | 13.4% |
| Return on equity | — | 43.2% |
| Return on assets | 2.4% | 4.5% |
| Return on invested capital | 10.7% | 10.0% |
| FCF yield | 12.4% | 5.1% |
| Dividend yield | 1.0% | 2.1% |
| Debt / equity | — | 5.88 |
| Current ratio | 1.07 | 0.98 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 0.71 | 1.53 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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