IQ vs. CNVS, NFLX, CCL, FWONK, IHG, NWS, FWONA, FOXA, WMG, and NWSA
Should you be buying iQIYI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iQIYI include Cineverse (CNVS), Netflix (NFLX), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Formula One Group (FWONK), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), News (NWS), Formula One Group (FWONA), FOX (FOXA), Warner Music Group (WMG), and News (NWSA). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
iQIYI (NASDAQ:IQ) and Cineverse (NASDAQ:CNVS) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
iQIYI has higher revenue and earnings than Cineverse. Cineverse is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iQIYI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
iQIYI currently has a consensus target price of $6.18, indicating a potential upside of 30.38%. Cineverse has a consensus target price of $7.75, indicating a potential upside of 675.08%. Given Cineverse's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cineverse is more favorable than iQIYI.
iQIYI has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cineverse has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
iQIYI has a net margin of 6.23% compared to Cineverse's net margin of -18.84%. iQIYI's return on equity of 17.57% beat Cineverse's return on equity.
52.7% of iQIYI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.2% of Cineverse shares are held by institutional investors. 57.8% of iQIYI shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.8% of Cineverse shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, iQIYI had 4 more articles in the media than Cineverse. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for iQIYI and 5 mentions for Cineverse. Cineverse's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat iQIYI's score of 0.49 indicating that Cineverse is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
iQIYI received 411 more outperform votes than Cineverse when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.88% of users gave iQIYI an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Cineverse an outperform vote.
Summary
iQIYI beats Cineverse on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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