NWSA vs. LYV, CNK, RDI, DIS, NWS, NYT, GCI, DJCO, LEE, and DALN
Should you be buying News stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of News include Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), Cinemark (CNK), Reading International (RDI), Walt Disney (DIS), News (NWS), New York Times (NYT), Gannett (GCI), Daily Journal (DJCO), Lee Enterprises (LEE), and DallasNews (DALN).
Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:LYV) and News (NASDAQ:NWSA) are both large-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.
Live Nation Entertainment has a net margin of 2.22% compared to Live Nation Entertainment's net margin of 2.09%. News' return on equity of 90.67% beat Live Nation Entertainment's return on equity.
News received 33 more outperform votes than Live Nation Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.45% of users gave Live Nation Entertainment an outperform vote while only 73.58% of users gave News an outperform vote.
Live Nation Entertainment currently has a consensus price target of $115.58, suggesting a potential upside of 27.63%. News has a consensus price target of $29.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.50%. Given News' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Live Nation Entertainment is more favorable than News.
In the previous week, Live Nation Entertainment had 8 more articles in the media than News. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Live Nation Entertainment and 4 mentions for News. News' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Live Nation Entertainment's score of -0.35 indicating that Live Nation Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Live Nation Entertainment has higher revenue and earnings than News. News is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Live Nation Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
74.5% of Live Nation Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.0% of News shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of Live Nation Entertainment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.6% of News 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.
Live Nation Entertainment has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, News has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Live Nation Entertainment beats News on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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