United Parks & Resorts (PRKS)

• Market cap: $2.37B
• 1 day: -2.88%
• 5 days: 1.34%
• 1 month: -12.56%
• 3 months: -18.51%
• 6 months: -18.28%
• Year to date: -25.10%
• 1 year: -16.88%
• 5 years: 279.40%
• 10 years: 106.62%
• Sector: Consumer Discretionary
• Industry: Leisure

About: United Parks & Resorts Inc is an American theme park and entertainment company. Its core business is the operation of theme parks and entertainment facilities involving sea animals across the country under prominent brands such as SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, Aquatica, Discovery Cove, and Sesame Place. The company generates the majority of its revenue from selling admission tickets for its theme parks.

Employees: 16,700

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

10% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $3.57B [Q3] → $3.92B (+$348M) [Q4]

5.18% more ownership

Funds ownership: 121.63% [Q3] → 126.82% (+5.18%) [Q4]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 12 [Q3] → 12 (+0) [Q4]

0% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 35 | Existing positions closed: 35

1% less funds holding

Funds holding: 224 [Q3] → 222 (-2) [Q4]

6% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 73 | Existing positions reduced: 78

44% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $2M | Put options by funds: $3.57M

Research analyst outlook

7 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $45 4% upside
• Avg. target: $56 30% upside
• High target: $72 67% upside

7 analyst ratings

• positive: 4 57%
• neutral: 2 29%
• negative: 1 14%

Truist Securities Michael Swartz 2% 1-year accuracy 1 / 57 met price target	21% upside $52	Buy Maintained	14 Apr 2025
Stifel Steven Wieczynski 26% 1-year accuracy 9 / 34 met price target	39% upside $60	Buy Maintained	11 Apr 2025
UBS Arpine Kocharyan 50% 1-year accuracy 1 / 2 met price target	14% upside $49	Neutral Initiated	9 Apr 2025
Barclays Brandt Montour 26% 1-year accuracy 19 / 73 met price target	16% upside $50	Equal-Weight Initiated	14 Mar 2025
Macquarie Paul Golding 17% 1-year accuracy 9 / 52 met price target	51% upside $65	Outperform Maintained	6 Mar 2025