PARAA vs. FOX, FOXA, PARA, NXST, MGM, NWSA, FWONA, NWS, POOL, and EDU
Should you be buying Paramount Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paramount Global include FOX (FOX), FOX (FOXA), Paramount Global (PARA), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), MGM Resorts International (MGM), News (NWSA), Formula One Group (FWONA), News (NWS), Pool (POOL), and New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARAA) and FOX (NASDAQ:FOX) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
FOX has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Paramount Global. Paramount Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FOX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
6.0% of Paramount Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.4% of FOX shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Paramount Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.2% of FOX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, FOX had 72 more articles in the media than Paramount Global. MarketBeat recorded 95 mentions for FOX and 23 mentions for Paramount Global. Paramount Global's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat FOX's score of 0.11 indicating that Paramount Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Paramount Global pays an annual dividend of 0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. FOX pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Paramount Global pays out -19.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FOX pays out 30.8% 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.
Paramount Global has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FOX has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
FOX received 368 more outperform votes than Paramount Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.54% of users gave FOX an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Paramount Global an outperform vote.
FOX has a net margin of 5.75% compared to Paramount Global's net margin of -2.05%. FOX's return on equity of 15.81% beat Paramount Global's return on equity.
Summary
FOX beats Paramount Global on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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