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$27.96 +0.20 (+0.72%)
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NWSA vs. LYV, CNK, RDI, DIS, NWS, NYT, DJCO, GCI, LEE, and DALN

Should you be buying News stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of News include Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), Cinemark (CNK), Reading International (RDI), Walt Disney (DIS), News (NWS), New York Times (NYT), Daily Journal (DJCO), Gannett (GCI), Lee Enterprises (LEE), and DallasNews (DALN).

News vs.

Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:LYV) and News (NASDAQ:NWSA) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.

Live Nation Entertainment has higher revenue and earnings than News. News is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Live Nation Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Live Nation Entertainment$22.74B1.45$315.84M$2.9348.61
News$10.27B1.54$266M$0.8632.47

In the previous week, Live Nation Entertainment had 14 more articles in the media than News. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Live Nation Entertainment and 1 mentions for News. Live Nation Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat News' score of 0.00 indicating that Live Nation Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Live Nation Entertainment
9 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
News
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Live Nation Entertainment presently has a consensus target price of $163.76, indicating a potential upside of 14.99%. News has a consensus target price of $39.20, indicating a potential upside of 40.37%. Given News' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe News is more favorable than Live Nation Entertainment.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Live Nation Entertainment
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
17 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
News
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.14

News received 5 more outperform votes than Live Nation Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.56% of users gave Live Nation Entertainment an outperform vote while only 73.46% of users gave News an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Live Nation EntertainmentOutperform Votes
676
76.56%
Underperform Votes
207
23.44%
NewsOutperform Votes
681
73.46%
Underperform Votes
246
26.54%

News has a net margin of 4.22% compared to Live Nation Entertainment's net margin of 3.90%. Live Nation Entertainment's return on equity of 139.09% beat News' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Live Nation Entertainment3.90% 139.09% 4.50%
News 4.22%5.31%2.89%

74.5% of Live Nation Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.0% of News shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Live Nation Entertainment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.6% of News shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Live Nation Entertainment has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, News has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Live Nation Entertainment beats News on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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NWSA vs. The Competition

MetricNewsNewspapers IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$15.82B$6.31B$8.00B$8.66B
Dividend Yield0.72%0.88%3.19%4.19%
P/E Ratio38.2924.2015.3620.20
Price / Sales1.542.173.82164.38
Price / Cash14.4417.1116.3734.64
Price / Book1.763.694.834.73
Net Income$266M$120.46M$257.27M$248.00M
7 Day Performance-0.05%-1.13%1.56%4.53%
1 Month Performance-0.48%-1.22%6.74%10.88%
1 Year Performance2.63%-0.76%22.92%15.20%

News Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NWSA
News
3.5267 of 5 stars
$27.96
+0.7%
$39.20
+40.2%
+2.8%$15.83B$10.27B38.3025,500
LYV
Live Nation Entertainment
4.5908 of 5 stars
$138.39
+0.9%
$162.07
+17.1%
+60.1%$32.07B$22.74B50.8812,800Trending News
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
CNK
Cinemark
3.5848 of 5 stars
$33.12
-1.9%
$33.20
+0.2%
+87.4%$3.81B$3.01B16.3218,100
RDI
Reading International
1.7438 of 5 stars
$1.40
+1.5%
$2.40
+72.0%
-2.7%$31.35M$205.64M-0.742,020Positive News
Gap Down
DIS
Walt Disney
4.1996 of 5 stars
$112.87
-0.2%
$123.54
+9.5%
+15.6%$202.91B$94.04B36.77220,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
NWS
News
0.4126 of 5 stars
$32.48
-0.7%
N/A+15.1%$18.39B$10.27B44.4925,500
NYT
New York Times
3.1926 of 5 stars
$57.02
-0.2%
$56.40
-1.1%
+9.1%$9.30B$2.63B32.035,800Trending News
DJCO
Daily Journal
1.069 of 5 stars
$413.12
-2.0%
N/A+16.2%$568.87M$73.25M7.45320News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
GCI
Gannett
3.7494 of 5 stars
$3.45
-2.5%
$5.55
+60.9%
-17.5%$505.20M$2.45B-6.3914,200
LEE
Lee Enterprises
0.3653 of 5 stars
$6.60
+7.3%
N/A-46.9%$41.05M$591.09M-0.914,360
DALN
DallasNews
0.2055 of 5 stars
$4.32
+0.2%
N/A+12.0%$23.12M$123.41M-3.86660

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This page (NASDAQ:NWSA) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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