NWS vs. NWSA, LBRDA, LBRDK, TTC, VIACA, WYNN, IHG, PARA, H, and CHDN
Should you be buying News stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of News include News (NWSA), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Toro (TTC), ViacomCBS (VIACA), Wynn Resorts (WYNN), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Paramount Global (PARA), Hyatt Hotels (H), and Churchill Downs (CHDN). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
News vs.
News (NASDAQ:NWSA) and News (NASDAQ:NWS) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
In the previous week, News had 1 more articles in the media than News. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for News and 1 mentions for News. News' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat News' score of 0.79 indicating that News is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
63.8% of News shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.4% of News shares are held by institutional investors. 13.8% of News shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.7% of News shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
News pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. News pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. News pays out 42.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. News pays out 42.6% 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.
News is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than News, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
News currently has a consensus target price of $26.03, suggesting a potential upside of 39.29%. Given News' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe News is more favorable than News.
News has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, News has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
News received 351 more outperform votes than News when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.51% of users gave News an outperform vote while only 60.68% of users gave News an outperform vote.
Summary
News beats News on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding NWS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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