Gray Television (GTN.A) Competitors

TEGNA (NYSE:TGNA) and Gray Television (NYSE:GTN.A) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and community ranking.

Do analysts rate TGNA or GTN.A?

TEGNA currently has a consensus target price of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.94%. Given Gray Television's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe TEGNA is more favorable than Gray Television.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TEGNA	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33
Gray Television	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Which has better valuation & earnings, TGNA or GTN.A?

TEGNA has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gray Television. Gray Television is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TEGNA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TEGNA	$2.91B	0.87	$476.72M	$2.86	5.22
Gray Television	$3.28B	0.24	-$76M	-$0.12	-66.42

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer TGNA or GTN.A?

TEGNA received 303 more outperform votes than Gray Television when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.82% of users gave Gray Television an outperform vote while only 62.78% of users gave TEGNA an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
TEGNA	Outperform Votes 452 62.78%	Underperform Votes 268 37.22%
Gray Television	Outperform Votes 149 66.82%	Underperform Votes 74 33.18%

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in TGNA or GTN.A?

92.2% of TEGNA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.3% of Gray Television shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of TEGNA shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Gray Television shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is TGNA or GTN.A a better dividend stock?

TEGNA pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Gray Television pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. TEGNA pays out 16.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gray Television pays out -266.7% 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. TEGNA has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Gray Television is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is TGNA or GTN.A more profitable?

TEGNA has a net margin of 19.48% compared to TEGNA's net margin of 1.30%. Gray Television's return on equity of 11.86% beat TEGNA's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TEGNA	19.48%	11.86%	4.74%
Gray Television	1.30%	2.13%	0.40%

Which has more risk and volatility, TGNA or GTN.A?

TEGNA has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gray Television has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer TGNA or GTN.A?

In the previous week, TEGNA had 1 more articles in the media than Gray Television. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for TEGNA and 3 mentions for Gray Television. Gray Television's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat TEGNA's score of 0.55 indicating that TEGNA is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
TEGNA	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Gray Television	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

TEGNA beats Gray Television on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.