TOON vs. GAIA, IMAQ, CURI, FUBO, TSQ, MAMO, ACU, DLTH, BRAG, and SKLZ
Should you be buying Kartoon Studios stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kartoon Studios include Gaia (GAIA), International Media Acquisition (IMAQ), CuriosityStream (CURI), fuboTV (FUBO), Townsquare Media (TSQ), Massimo Group (MAMO), Acme United (ACU), Duluth (DLTH), Bragg Gaming Group (BRAG), and Skillz (SKLZ). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Kartoon Studios (NASDAQ:TOON) and Gaia (NASDAQ:GAIA) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Gaia received 363 more outperform votes than Kartoon Studios when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.75% of users gave Gaia an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Kartoon Studios an outperform vote.
Kartoon Studios has a beta of 2.61, indicating that its stock price is 161% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gaia has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
8.6% of Kartoon Studios shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.5% of Gaia shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.0% of Kartoon Studios shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 35.4% of Gaia shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gaia has a net margin of -6.29% compared to Kartoon Studios' net margin of -164.98%. Gaia's return on equity of -5.98% beat Kartoon Studios' return on equity.
Gaia has higher revenue and earnings than Kartoon Studios. Gaia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kartoon Studios, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kartoon Studios presently has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 852.38%. Given Kartoon Studios' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Kartoon Studios is more favorable than Gaia.
In the previous week, Gaia had 10 more articles in the media than Kartoon Studios. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Gaia and 1 mentions for Kartoon Studios. Kartoon Studios' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Gaia's score of 0.37 indicating that Kartoon Studios is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Gaia beats Kartoon Studios on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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