GCI vs. DJCO, LEE, DALN, NWS, NWSA, NYT, HNI, RAMP, JAMF, and BFH
Should you be buying Gannett stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gannett include Daily Journal (DJCO), Lee Enterprises (LEE), DallasNews (DALN), News (NWS), News (NWSA), New York Times (NYT), HNI (HNI), LiveRamp (RAMP), Jamf (JAMF), and Bread Financial (BFH).
Gannett (NYSE:GCI) and Daily Journal (NASDAQ:DJCO) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Daily Journal has a net margin of 30.94% compared to Gannett's net margin of -4.67%. Daily Journal's return on equity of 16.55% beat Gannett's return on equity.
Gannett has a beta of 2.3, meaning that its share price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Daily Journal has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Daily Journal has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Gannett. Gannett is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Daily Journal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gannett currently has a consensus price target of $4.30, indicating a potential upside of 13.76%. Given Gannett's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Gannett is more favorable than Daily Journal.
76.7% of Gannett shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.2% of Daily Journal shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of Gannett shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Daily Journal shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Gannett received 85 more outperform votes than Daily Journal when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.43% of users gave Gannett an outperform vote while only 57.29% of users gave Daily Journal an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Gannett had 3 more articles in the media than Daily Journal. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Gannett and 5 mentions for Daily Journal. Gannett's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Daily Journal's score of 0.64 indicating that Gannett is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Gannett beats Daily Journal on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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