SIRI vs. CMLS, CHTR, LBTYA, AMCX, CMCSA, TME, TSQ, IHRT, SGA, and UONE
Should you be buying Sirius XM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sirius XM include Cumulus Media (CMLS), Charter Communications (CHTR), Liberty Global (LBTYA), AMC Networks (AMCX), Comcast (CMCSA), Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME), Townsquare Media (TSQ), iHeartMedia (IHRT), Saga Communications (SGA), and Urban One (UONE).
Cumulus Media (NASDAQ:CMLS) and Sirius XM (NASDAQ:SIRI) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Cumulus Media has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sirius XM has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cumulus Media currently has a consensus price target of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 272.55%. Sirius XM has a consensus price target of $4.33, suggesting a potential upside of 56.79%. Given Sirius XM's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cumulus Media is more favorable than Sirius XM.
48.7% of Cumulus Media shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.7% of Sirius XM shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of Cumulus Media shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Sirius XM shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Sirius XM had 13 more articles in the media than Cumulus Media. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Sirius XM and 2 mentions for Cumulus Media. Sirius XM's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Cumulus Media's score of 0.49 indicating that Cumulus Media is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sirius XM has higher revenue and earnings than Cumulus Media. Cumulus Media is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sirius XM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sirius XM has a net margin of 14.38% compared to Sirius XM's net margin of -13.18%. Sirius XM's return on equity of -16.78% beat Cumulus Media's return on equity.
Sirius XM received 631 more outperform votes than Cumulus Media when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.56% of users gave Sirius XM an outperform vote while only 54.84% of users gave Cumulus Media an outperform vote.
Summary
Sirius XM beats Cumulus Media on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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