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Should you be buying Sinclair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sinclair include Entravision Communications (EVC), Salem Media Group (SALM), Beasley Broadcast Group (BBGI), Formula One Group (FWONA), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), TEGNA (TGNA), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Gray Television (GTN.A), Gray Television (GTN), and E.W. Scripps (SSP).
Sinclair vs.
Sinclair (NASDAQ:SBGI) and Entravision Communications (NYSE:EVC) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
41.7% of Sinclair shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of Entravision Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 46.6% of Sinclair shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Entravision Communications shares are held 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.
Sinclair pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Entravision Communications pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%. Sinclair pays out 21.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Entravision Communications pays out -12.1% 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. Entravision Communications is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sinclair presently has a consensus price target of $19.30, suggesting a potential upside of 34.03%. Given Sinclair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Sinclair is more favorable than Entravision Communications.
Entravision Communications has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Sinclair. Entravision Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sinclair, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sinclair has a net margin of -6.14% compared to Entravision Communications' net margin of -14.25%. Sinclair's return on equity of 63.89% beat Entravision Communications' return on equity.
Sinclair received 156 more outperform votes than Entravision Communications when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.10% of users gave Sinclair an outperform vote while only 60.08% of users gave Entravision Communications an outperform vote.
Sinclair has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Entravision Communications has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sinclair had 4 more articles in the media than Entravision Communications. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Sinclair and 2 mentions for Entravision Communications. Sinclair's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Entravision Communications' score of 0.21 indicating that Sinclair is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Sinclair beats Entravision Communications on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SBGI) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff