LEE vs. DALN, NWS, NWSA, NYT, GCI, DJCO, VGII, AFRI, CBUS, and SV
Should you be buying Lee Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lee Enterprises include DallasNews (DALN), News (NWS), News (NWSA), New York Times (NYT), Gannett (GCI), Daily Journal (DJCO), Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II (VGII), Forafric Global (AFRI), Cibus (CBUS), and Spring Valley Acquisition (SV).
Lee Enterprises (NYSE:LEE) and DallasNews (NASDAQ:DALN) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Lee Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than DallasNews. Lee Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DallasNews, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lee Enterprises and Lee Enterprises both had 1 articles in the media. DallasNews' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Lee Enterprises' score of 0.00 indicating that DallasNews is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lee Enterprises has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DallasNews has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lee Enterprises received 206 more outperform votes than DallasNews when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.42% of users gave Lee Enterprises an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave DallasNews an outperform vote.
39.2% of Lee Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.2% of DallasNews shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.4% of Lee Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of DallasNews shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lee Enterprises has a net margin of -1.88% compared to DallasNews' net margin of -4.31%. Lee Enterprises' return on equity of -67.53% beat DallasNews' return on equity.
Summary
Lee Enterprises beats DallasNews on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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