CMLS vs. EMMS, BBGI, UONEK, UONE, SGA, TCS, SOND, PMNT, COE, and TOON
Should you be buying Cumulus Media stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cumulus Media include Emmis Communications (EMMS), Beasley Broadcast Group (BBGI), Urban One (UONEK), Urban One (UONE), Saga Communications (SGA), The Container Store Group (TCS), Sonder (SOND), Perfect Moment (PMNT), 51Talk Online Education Group (COE), and Kartoon Studios (TOON). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Emmis Communications (NASDAQ:EMMS) and Cumulus Media (NASDAQ:CMLS) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Emmis Communications has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cumulus Media.
Emmis Communications has a net margin of 85.66% compared to Emmis Communications' net margin of -13.96%. Cumulus Media's return on equity of -10.85% beat Emmis Communications' return on equity.
Emmis Communications has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cumulus Media has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cumulus Media has a consensus price target of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 245.45%. Given Emmis Communications' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cumulus Media is more favorable than Emmis Communications.
In the previous week, Cumulus Media had 5 more articles in the media than Emmis Communications. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Cumulus Media and 0 mentions for Emmis Communications. Cumulus Media's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Emmis Communications' score of -0.07 indicating that Emmis Communications is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Emmis Communications received 57 more outperform votes than Cumulus Media when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.74% of users gave Emmis Communications an outperform vote while only 54.84% of users gave Cumulus Media an outperform vote.
35.7% of Emmis Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.7% of Cumulus Media shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.3% of Emmis Communications shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Cumulus Media shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Emmis Communications beats Cumulus Media on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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