Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality (NYSE:PRSU) and Norwegian Cruise Line (NYSE:NCLH) Financial Analysis

Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality (NYSE:PRSU) and Norwegian Cruise Line (NYSE:NCLH) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality and Norwegian Cruise Line, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality	0	1	3	0	2.75
Norwegian Cruise Line	0	9	12	2	2.70

Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality currently has a consensus target price of $33.67, suggesting a potential upside of 0.98%. Norwegian Cruise Line has a consensus target price of $28.26, suggesting a potential upside of 58.23%. Given Norwegian Cruise Line’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Norwegian Cruise Line is more favorable than Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

89.9% of Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.6% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality and Norwegian Cruise Line”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality	$441.14 million	2.14	$368.54 million	$12.50	2.67
Norwegian Cruise Line	$9.69 billion	0.84	$910.26 million	$1.36	13.13

Norwegian Cruise Line has higher revenue and earnings than Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality. Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Norwegian Cruise Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality and Norwegian Cruise Line’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality	51.67%	21.30%	11.41%
Norwegian Cruise Line	7.52%	59.88%	4.02%

Risk & Volatility

Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Norwegian Cruise Line has a beta of 2.22, indicating that its stock price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Norwegian Cruise Line beats Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality

Pursuit Attractions & Hospitality, Inc. engages in the provision of hospitality and leisure activities, experiential marketing, and live events. It operates through the following segments: Pursuit, Spiro, and GES Exhibitions. The Pursuit segment provides travel experiences that include recreational attractions, unique hotels and lodges, food and beverage, retail, sightseeing, and ground transportation services. The Spiro segment is an experiential marketing agency that partners with brands around the world to manage and elevate their global experiential marketing activities. The GES Exhibitions segment is a global exhibition services company that partners with exhibition and conference organizers as a full-service provider of strategic and logistics solutions to manage the complexity of their shows. The company was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

About Norwegian Cruise Line

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a cruise company in North America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company operates through the Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises, and Regent Seven Seas Cruises brands. It offers itineraries ranging from three days to a 180-days calling on various ports, including Scandinavia, Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Greek Isles, Alaska, Canada and New England, Hawaii, Asia, Tahiti and the South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Africa, India, South America, the Panama Canal, and the Caribbean. It distributes its products through retail/travel advisor and onboard cruise sales channels, as well as meetings, incentives, and charters. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. was founded in 1966 and is based in Miami, Florida.