NWS vs. PSO, WBTN, GCI, NWSA, NYT, TPCO, DJCO, LEE, AHC, and DALN
Should you be buying News stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of News include Pearson (PSO), WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN), Gannett (GCI), News (NWSA), New York Times (NYT), Tribune Publishing (TPCO), Daily Journal (DJCO), Lee Enterprises (LEE), A.H. Belo (AHC), and DallasNews (DALN).
Pearson (NYSE:PSO) and News (NASDAQ:NWS) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
News has a net margin of 2.09% compared to News' net margin of 0.00%. Pearson's return on equity of 4.28% beat News' return on equity.
Pearson has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, News has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Pearson had 2 more articles in the media than News. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Pearson and 4 mentions for News. Pearson's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat News' score of -0.02 indicating that News is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pearson has higher earnings, but lower revenue than News.
Pearson received 99 more outperform votes than News when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.68% of users gave News an outperform vote while only 48.26% of users gave Pearson an outperform vote.
Pearson presently has a consensus price target of $12.30, indicating a potential downside of 8.48%. Given News' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Pearson is more favorable than News.
2.1% of Pearson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.6% of News shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Pearson shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.7% of News shares are owned by company 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.
Pearson pays an annual dividend of $0.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. News pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. News pays out 55.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
News beats Pearson on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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