Financial Comparison: Boyd Gaming (NYSE:BYD) vs. Super League Enterprise (NASDAQ:SLE)

Boyd Gaming (NYSE:BYD) and Super League Enterprise (NASDAQ:SLE) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Boyd Gaming and Super League Enterprise, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Boyd Gaming	0	10	5	0	2.33
Super League Enterprise	1	0	1	0	2.00

Boyd Gaming presently has a consensus price target of $92.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.05%. Given Boyd Gaming’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Boyd Gaming is more favorable than Super League Enterprise.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

76.8% of Boyd Gaming shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.1% of Super League Enterprise shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.0% of Boyd Gaming shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Super League Enterprise shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

Boyd Gaming has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Super League Enterprise has a beta of 1.85, meaning that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Boyd Gaming and Super League Enterprise’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Boyd Gaming	46.02%	34.63%	9.34%
Super League Enterprise	-130.97%	N/A	-156.77%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Boyd Gaming and Super League Enterprise”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Boyd Gaming	$3.93 billion	1.66	$577.95 million	$22.88	3.65
Super League Enterprise	$16.18 million	0.32	-$16.64 million	($418.01)	-0.01

Boyd Gaming has higher revenue and earnings than Super League Enterprise. Super League Enterprise is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Boyd Gaming, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Boyd Gaming beats Super League Enterprise on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Boyd Gaming

Boyd Gaming Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a multi-jurisdictional gaming company in Nevada, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The company operates through Las Vegas Locals, Downtown Las Vegas, Midwest & South, and Online segments. It also engages in owning and operating a travel agency. Boyd Gaming Corporation was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

About Super League Enterprise

Super League Enterprise, Inc. creates and publishes content and media solutions across immersive platforms in the United States and internationally. The company offers access to audiences who gather in immersive digital spaces to socialize, play, explore, collaborate, shop, learn, and create. It also provides a range of development, distribution, monetization, and optimization capabilities designed to engage users through dynamic and energized programs. Its proprietary cloud-based platform offers dynamic media technology; metaverse game experience and tournament technology; and fully remote production and livestream broadcast technology. In addition, the company operates Minecraft server world for more casual players on consoles and tablets. Further, it sells on-platform media and analytics products, and influencer marketing campaign sales to third-party brands and agencies; game development and custom game experiences within its owned and affiliate game worlds; and production, curation and distribution of entertainment content for its network of digital channels and media and entertainment partner channels. The company was formerly known as Super League Gaming, Inc. and changed its name to Super League Enterprise, Inc. in September 2023. Super League Enterprise, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.