MORN vs. NYT, SSTK, SCHL, DJCO, VALU, MKTW, TRI, VRSK, IRM, and TRU
Should you be buying Morningstar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Morningstar include New York Times (NYT), Shutterstock (SSTK), Scholastic (SCHL), Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.) (DJCO), Value Line (VALU), MarketWise (MKTW), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Verisk Analytics (VRSK), Iron Mountain (IRM), and TransUnion (TRU).
Morningstar vs. Its Competitors
New York Times (NYSE:NYT) and Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) are both publishing companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
In the previous week, New York Times had 111 more articles in the media than Morningstar. MarketBeat recorded 144 mentions for New York Times and 33 mentions for Morningstar. Morningstar's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat New York Times' score of 0.03 indicating that Morningstar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Morningstar has lower revenue, but higher earnings than New York Times. 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.
95.4% of New York Times shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.0% of Morningstar shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of New York Times shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 36.2% of Morningstar shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Morningstar has a net margin of 16.60% compared to New York Times' net margin of 11.53%. Morningstar's return on equity of 23.23% beat New York Times' return on equity.
New York Times has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morningstar has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
New York Times presently has a consensus target price of $56.40, indicating a potential downside of 1.26%. Morningstar has a consensus target price of $361.67, indicating a potential upside of 16.26%. Given Morningstar's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Morningstar is more favorable than New York Times.
New York Times pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. New York Times pays out 39.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Morningstar pays out 20.4% 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. New York Times has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Morningstar has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years.
Summary
Morningstar beats New York Times on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NASDAQ:MORN) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
