Morningstar (MORN) Competitors

Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) and New York Times (NYSE:NYT) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.

Do analysts prefer MORN or NYT?

Morningstar presently has a consensus target price of $361.67, suggesting a potential upside of 18.92%. New York Times has a consensus target price of $56.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.04%. Given Morningstar's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Morningstar is more favorable than New York Times.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Morningstar	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
New York Times	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.40

Is MORN or NYT a better dividend stock?

Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. New York Times pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Morningstar pays out 20.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New York Times pays out 39.1% 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. Morningstar has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years and New York Times has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, MORN or NYT?

New York Times has higher revenue and earnings than Morningstar. New York Times is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morningstar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Morningstar	$2.31B	5.55	$141.10M	$8.90	34.17
New York Times	$2.63B	3.44	$293.83M	$1.84	30.12

Which has more volatility and risk, MORN or NYT?

Morningstar has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New York Times has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is MORN or NYT more profitable?

Morningstar has a net margin of 14.69% compared to New York Times' net margin of 11.36%. Morningstar's return on equity of 23.28% beat New York Times' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Morningstar	14.69%	23.28%	9.66%
New York Times	11.36%	18.51%	12.42%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor MORN or NYT?

New York Times received 8 more outperform votes than Morningstar when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.95% of users gave New York Times an outperform vote while only 55.28% of users gave Morningstar an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Morningstar	Outperform Votes 340 55.28%	Underperform Votes 275 44.72%
New York Times	Outperform Votes 348 60.95%	Underperform Votes 223 39.05%

Does the media refer more to MORN or NYT?

In the previous week, New York Times had 147 more articles in the media than Morningstar. MarketBeat recorded 176 mentions for New York Times and 29 mentions for Morningstar. Morningstar's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat New York Times' score of 0.01 indicating that Morningstar is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Morningstar	17 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	7 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
New York Times	28 Very Positive mention(s)	20 Positive mention(s)	75 Neutral mention(s)	27 Negative mention(s)	26 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of MORN or NYT?

57.0% of Morningstar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of New York Times shares are held by institutional investors. 36.2% of Morningstar shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of New York Times shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Morningstar beats New York Times on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.