AFRN vs. ITV, STVG, BBB, ZIN, HUD, DNM, OMIP, SEEN, SBDS, and GVMH
Should you be buying Aferian stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aferian include ITV (ITV), STV Group (STVG), Bigblu Broadband (BBB), Zinc Media Group (ZIN), Huddled Group (HUD), Dianomi (DNM), One Media iP Group (OMIP), SEEEN (SEEN), Silver Bullet Data Services Group (SBDS), and Grand Vision Media (GVMH). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Aferian vs.
ITV (LON:ITV) and Aferian (LON:AFRN) are both communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
ITV pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Aferian pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 77.4%. ITV pays out 45.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aferian pays out -6.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Aferian is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
ITV has higher revenue and earnings than Aferian. Aferian is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ITV, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ITV has a net margin of 12.11% compared to Aferian's net margin of -177.04%. ITV's return on equity of 23.62% beat Aferian's return on equity.
64.8% of ITV shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.6% of Aferian shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.6% of ITV shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.7% of Aferian shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ITV presently has a consensus target price of GBX 112.50, suggesting a potential upside of 43.59%. Given ITV's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ITV is more favorable than Aferian.
ITV received 1587 more outperform votes than Aferian when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, ITV's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Aferian'saverage media sentiment score.
ITV has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aferian has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ITV beats Aferian on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:AFRN) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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