NWSA vs. LYV, CNK, RDI, DIS, NWS, NYT, GCI, DJCO, 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), Gannett (GCI), Daily Journal (DJCO), Lee Enterprises (LEE), and DallasNews (DALN).
News (NASDAQ:NWSA) and Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:LYV) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and risk.
News has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Live Nation Entertainment has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
News received 31 more outperform votes than Live Nation Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.51% of users gave Live Nation Entertainment an outperform vote while only 73.58% of users gave News an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Live Nation Entertainment had 9 more articles in the media than News. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Live Nation Entertainment and 8 mentions for News. News' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Live Nation Entertainment's score of 0.69 indicating that News is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Live Nation Entertainment has a net margin of 2.22% compared to News' net margin of 2.09%. Live Nation Entertainment's return on equity of 90.67% beat News' return on equity.
67.0% of News shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of Live Nation Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.6% of News shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Live Nation Entertainment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
News presently has a consensus price target of $29.50, suggesting a potential upside of 7.31%. Live Nation Entertainment has a consensus price target of $115.58, suggesting a potential upside of 23.43%. Given Live Nation Entertainment's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Live Nation Entertainment is more favorable than News.
Summary
Live Nation Entertainment beats News on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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