CURI vs. GAIA, IMAQ, TOON, CLOE, WFCF, NTZ, BZFD, BEDU, KUKE, and BODI
Should you be buying CuriosityStream stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CuriosityStream include Gaia (GAIA), International Media Acquisition (IMAQ), Kartoon Studios (TOON), Clover Leaf Capital (CLOE), Where Food Comes From (WFCF), Natuzzi (NTZ), BuzzFeed (BZFD), Bright Scholar Education (BEDU), Kuke Music (KUKE), and Beachbody (BODI). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
CuriosityStream (NASDAQ:CURI) and Gaia (NASDAQ:GAIA) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Gaia received 330 more outperform votes than CuriosityStream when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.64% of users gave Gaia an outperform vote while only 59.62% of users gave CuriosityStream an outperform vote.
CuriosityStream currently has a consensus price target of $1.35, suggesting a potential upside of 19.47%. Given CuriosityStream's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe CuriosityStream is more favorable than Gaia.
Gaia has a net margin of -6.29% compared to CuriosityStream's net margin of -81.73%. Gaia's return on equity of -5.98% beat CuriosityStream's return on equity.
CuriosityStream has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gaia has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CuriosityStream had 8 more articles in the media than Gaia. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for CuriosityStream and 9 mentions for Gaia. Gaia's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat CuriosityStream's score of 0.32 indicating that Gaia is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
6.8% of CuriosityStream shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.5% of Gaia shares are owned by institutional investors. 55.4% of CuriosityStream shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 35.4% of Gaia 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.
Gaia has higher revenue and earnings than CuriosityStream. Gaia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CuriosityStream, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Gaia beats CuriosityStream on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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