GTN vs. TV, SBGI, GTN.A, SSP, EVC, FENG, FOXA, FOX, PARAA, and PARA
Should you be buying Gray Television stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gray Television include Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Sinclair (SBGI), Gray Television (GTN.A), E.W. Scripps (SSP), Entravision Communications (EVC), Phoenix New Media (FENG), FOX (FOXA), FOX (FOX), Paramount Global (PARAA), and Paramount Global (PARA). These companies are all part of the "television broadcasting stations" industry.
Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (NYSE:TV) and Gray Television (NYSE:GTN) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
Gray Television has a net margin of 1.30% compared to Gray Television's net margin of -11.78%. Grupo Televisa, S.A.B.'s return on equity of 2.13% beat Gray Television's return on equity.
Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. currently has a consensus price target of $5.28, suggesting a potential upside of 64.49%. Gray Television has a consensus price target of $11.40, suggesting a potential upside of 101.77%. Given Grupo Televisa, S.A.B.'s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gray Television is more favorable than Grupo Televisa, S.A.B..
55.8% of Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of Gray Television shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.8% of Gray Television shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gray Television has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Grupo Televisa, S.A.B.. Gray Television is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gray Television received 125 more outperform votes than Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.05% of users gave Gray Television an outperform vote while only 54.16% of users gave Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. and Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. both had 4 articles in the media. Gray Television's average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Grupo Televisa, S.A.B.'s score of 0.81 indicating that Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. has a beta of 1.79, suggesting that its share price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gray Television has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Gray Television pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. pays out -10.3% 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. Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Gray Television is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Gray Television beats Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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