GCI vs. DJCO, LEE, DALN, NWS, NWSA, NYT, LSPD, MIR, PAYO, and CLBT
Should you be buying Gannett stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gannett include Daily Journal (DJCO), Lee Enterprises (LEE), DallasNews (DALN), News (NWS), News (NWSA), New York Times (NYT), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Mirion Technologies (MIR), Payoneer Global (PAYO), and Cellebrite DI (CLBT).
Daily Journal (NASDAQ:DJCO) and Gannett (NYSE:GCI) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
51.2% of Daily Journal shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.7% of Gannett shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Daily Journal shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Gannett shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Daily Journal has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gannett has a beta of 2.43, indicating that its stock price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gannett has a consensus price target of $4.30, indicating a potential upside of 7.50%. Given Daily Journal's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Gannett is more favorable than Daily Journal.
Daily Journal has a net margin of 30.94% compared to Daily Journal's net margin of -4.67%. Gannett's return on equity of 16.55% beat Daily Journal's return on equity.
Gannett received 85 more outperform votes than Daily Journal when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.43% of users gave Gannett an outperform vote while only 57.29% of users gave Daily Journal an outperform vote.
Daily Journal has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gannett. Gannett is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Daily Journal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Gannett had 1 more articles in the media than Daily Journal. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Gannett and 1 mentions for Daily Journal. Gannett's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Daily Journal's score of 0.05 indicating that Daily Journal is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Gannett beats Daily Journal on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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