VIRC vs. GTN.A, RGR, SWBI, MBUU, BYON, AMCX, MNRO, GTN, RSVR, and BALY
Should you be buying Virco Mfg. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virco Mfg. include Gray Television (GTN.A), Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR), Smith & Wesson Brands (SWBI), Malibu Boats (MBUU), Beyond (BYON), AMC Networks (AMCX), Monro (MNRO), Gray Television (GTN), Reservoir Media (RSVR), and Bally's (BALY). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Gray Television (NYSE:GTN.A) and Virco Mfg. (NASDAQ:VIRC) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment and dividends.
Gray Television has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Virco Mfg. has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Gray Television pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Virco Mfg. pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Gray Television pays out -266.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Virco Mfg. pays out 6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Virco Mfg. has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Gray Television is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
0.3% of Gray Television shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.0% of Virco Mfg. shares are held by institutional investors. 13.3% of Gray Television shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of Virco Mfg. shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Virco Mfg. has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Gray Television. Gray Television is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Virco Mfg., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gray Television received 3 more outperform votes than Virco Mfg. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.82% of users gave Gray Television an outperform vote while only 54.68% of users gave Virco Mfg. an outperform vote.
Virco Mfg. has a net margin of 8.14% compared to Virco Mfg.'s net margin of 1.30%. Gray Television's return on equity of 26.24% beat Virco Mfg.'s return on equity.
In the previous week, Gray Television and Gray Television both had 3 articles in the media. Gray Television's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Virco Mfg.'s score of 0.46 indicating that Virco Mfg. is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Virco Mfg. beats Gray Television on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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