DALN vs. LEE, DTEA, WTER, VGII, SNAX, BRFH, EDUC, PLIN, BTOG, and WVVI
Should you be buying DallasNews stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DallasNews include Lee Enterprises (LEE), DAVIDsTEA (DTEA), Alkaline Water (WTER), Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II (VGII), Stryve Foods (SNAX), Barfresh Food Group (BRFH), Educational Development (EDUC), China Xiangtai Food (PLIN), Bit Origin (BTOG), and Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVVI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
DallasNews vs.
Lee Enterprises (NYSE:LEE) and DallasNews (NASDAQ:DALN) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Lee Enterprises received 189 more outperform votes than DallasNews when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.77% of users gave Lee Enterprises an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave DallasNews an outperform vote.
Lee Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than DallasNews. Lee Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DallasNews, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lee Enterprises has a net margin of -1.67% compared to DallasNews' net margin of -6.50%. Lee Enterprises' return on equity of 16.78% beat DallasNews' return on equity.
38.4% of Lee Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.6% of DallasNews shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.4% of Lee Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of DallasNews shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, DallasNews had 1 more articles in the media than Lee Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for DallasNews and 1 mentions for Lee Enterprises. Lee Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat DallasNews' score of -0.13 indicating that Lee Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lee Enterprises has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DallasNews has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lee Enterprises beats DallasNews on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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