Reviewing Madison Square Garden (NYSE:MSGS) and Bluegreen Vacations (OTCMKTS:BVHBB)

Bluegreen Vacations (OTCMKTS:BVHBB) and Madison Square Garden (NYSE:MSGS) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.

Profitability

This table compares Bluegreen Vacations and Madison Square Garden’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bluegreen Vacations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Madison Square Garden	-2.31%	-1.76%	-1.60%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

20.7% of Bluegreen Vacations shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.9% of Madison Square Garden shares are held by institutional investors. 88.2% of Bluegreen Vacations shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.1% of Madison Square Garden shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Bluegreen Vacations and Madison Square Garden”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bluegreen Vacations	$919.43 million	1.33	$64.39 million	N/A	N/A
Madison Square Garden	$1.04 billion	4.97	-$22.44 million	($0.98)	-219.43

Bluegreen Vacations has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Madison Square Garden.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Bluegreen Vacations and Madison Square Garden, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bluegreen Vacations	0	0	0	0	0.00
Madison Square Garden	1	3	6	0	2.50

Madison Square Garden has a consensus target price of $260.50, indicating a potential upside of 21.14%. Given Madison Square Garden’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Madison Square Garden is more favorable than Bluegreen Vacations.

Summary

Madison Square Garden beats Bluegreen Vacations on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Bluegreen Vacations

Bluegreen Vacations Holding Corporation operates as a vacation ownership company. The company markets and sells vacation ownership interests (VOI); and manages resorts in leisure and urban destinations, including Orlando, Las Vegas, Myrtle Beach, Charleston and New Orleans, and others. It also provides resort management, mortgage, title, reservation, and construction design and development services; and financing to qualified VOI purchasers, as well as management services to the vacation club and homeowners' associations. The company was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

About Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. operates as a professional sports company in the United States. The company owns and operates a portfolio of assets that consists of the New York Knickerbockers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. Its other professional franchises include development league teams, the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League and the Westchester Knicks of the NBA G League. The company also owns Knicks Gaming, an esports franchise that competes in the NBA 2K League. In addition, it operates professional sports team performance centers, the Madison Square Garden Training Center in Greenburgh. The company was formerly known as The Madison Square Garden Company. Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.