Best Leisure Stocks Worth Watching – May 7th

Apollo Global Management, Trip.com Group, and MGM Resorts International are the three Leisure stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Leisure stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that derive most of their revenue from recreational and nonessential consumer activities—such as travel and tourism, hotels and resorts, restaurants, casinos, and entertainment venues. Investors often view them as economically sensitive, meaning their performance tends to rise in periods of strong consumer confidence and discretionary spending and fall during downturns when consumers cut back on leisure expenses. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Leisure stocks within the last several days.

Apollo Global Management (APO)

Apollo Global Management, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in credit, private equity, infrastructure, secondaries and real estate markets. The firm prefers to invest in private and public markets. The firm’s private equity investments include traditional buyouts, recapitalization, distressed buyouts and debt investments in real estate, corporate partner buyouts, distressed asset, corporate carve-outs, middle market, growth, venture capital, turnaround, bridge, corporate restructuring, special situation, acquisition, and industry consolidation transactions.

Shares of Apollo Global Management stock traded up $0.12 during midday trading on Wednesday, hitting $129.43. The company had a trading volume of 1,402,652 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,847,065. Apollo Global Management has a 1-year low of $95.11 and a 1-year high of $189.49. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a current ratio of 1.44 and a quick ratio of 1.44. The stock has a market cap of $73.84 billion, a PE ratio of 17.70, a P/E/G ratio of 1.17 and a beta of 1.67. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $132.55 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $152.80.

Trip.com Group (TCOM)

Trip.com Group Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as a travel service provider for accommodation reservation, transportation ticketing, packaged tours and in-destination, corporate travel management, and other travel-related services in China and internationally. The company acts as an agent for hotel-related transactions and selling air tickets, as well as provides train, long-distance bus, and ferry tickets; travel insurance products, such as flight delay, air accident, and baggage loss coverage; and air-ticket delivery, online check-in and seat selection, express security screening, real-time flight status tracker, and airport VIP lounge services.

Shares of TCOM stock traded up $0.60 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $61.82. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 874,793 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,031,660. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $59.73 and its two-hundred day moving average is $64.47. The company has a market cap of $40.39 billion, a P/E ratio of 18.51, a PEG ratio of 0.67 and a beta of 0.08. Trip.com Group has a 1-year low of $38.23 and a 1-year high of $77.18. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a quick ratio of 1.42 and a current ratio of 1.42.

MGM Resorts International (MGM)

MGM Resorts International, through its subsidiaries, owns and operates casino, hotel, and entertainment resorts in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Las Vegas Strip Resorts, Regional Operations, and MGM China. Its casino resorts offer gaming, hotel, convention, dining, entertainment, retail, and other resort amenities.

NYSE:MGM traded up $0.66 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $32.08. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,650,707 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,681,669. MGM Resorts International has a fifty-two week low of $25.30 and a fifty-two week high of $47.26. The company has a market capitalization of $8.73 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.35, a P/E/G ratio of 0.98 and a beta of 1.78. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $30.68 and a 200-day moving average of $34.16. The company has a current ratio of 1.30, a quick ratio of 1.26 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.73.