NCMI vs. CCO, XPER, GDOT, CTLP, BWMN, WDH, DAO, ICG, RDUS, and ACTG
Should you be buying National CineMedia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National CineMedia include Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO), Xperi (XPER), Green Dot (GDOT), Cantaloupe (CTLP), Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN), Waterdrop (WDH), Youdao (DAO), Intchains Group (ICG), Radius Recycling (RDUS), and Acacia Research (ACTG). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
National CineMedia (NASDAQ:NCMI) and Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE:CCO) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and risk.
National CineMedia received 160 more outperform votes than Clear Channel Outdoor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.70% of users gave National CineMedia an outperform vote while only 53.67% of users gave Clear Channel Outdoor an outperform vote.
National CineMedia currently has a consensus target price of $6.08, indicating a potential upside of 30.54%. Clear Channel Outdoor has a consensus target price of $2.16, indicating a potential upside of 44.17%. Given Clear Channel Outdoor's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Clear Channel Outdoor is more favorable than National CineMedia.
National CineMedia has a beta of 1.89, meaning that its share price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clear Channel Outdoor has a beta of 2.88, meaning that its share price is 188% more volatile than the S&P 500.
National CineMedia has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Clear Channel Outdoor. Clear Channel Outdoor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National CineMedia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
National CineMedia has a net margin of 426.68% compared to Clear Channel Outdoor's net margin of -13.28%. Clear Channel Outdoor's return on equity of 0.00% beat National CineMedia's return on equity.
In the previous week, National CineMedia and National CineMedia both had 3 articles in the media. Clear Channel Outdoor's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat National CineMedia's score of 0.40 indicating that Clear Channel Outdoor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
69.5% of National CineMedia shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.5% of Clear Channel Outdoor shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of National CineMedia shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of Clear Channel Outdoor shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
National CineMedia beats Clear Channel Outdoor on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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