SSP vs. ATUS, CABO, ATEX, GTN, SPIR, WOW, AREN, IHRT, CXDO, and TSQ
Should you be buying E.W. Scripps stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of E.W. Scripps include Altice USA (ATUS), Cable One (CABO), Anterix (ATEX), Gray Media (GTN), Spire Global (SPIR), WideOpenWest (WOW), The Arena Group (AREN), iHeartMedia (IHRT), Crexendo (CXDO), and Townsquare Media (TSQ). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.
E.W. Scripps vs. Its Competitors
E.W. Scripps (NASDAQ:SSP) and Altice USA (NYSE:ATUS) are both small-cap communication companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.
E.W. Scripps has a net margin of 5.71% compared to Altice USA's net margin of -1.78%. E.W. Scripps' return on equity of 17.81% beat Altice USA's return on equity.
E.W. Scripps has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Altice USA has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
67.8% of E.W. Scripps shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.9% of Altice USA shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of E.W. Scripps shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 44.6% of Altice USA shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Altice USA had 3 more articles in the media than E.W. Scripps. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Altice USA and 2 mentions for E.W. Scripps. E.W. Scripps' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Altice USA's score of -0.11 indicating that E.W. Scripps is being referred to more favorably in the media.
E.W. Scripps currently has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 153.16%. Altice USA has a consensus target price of $2.88, suggesting a potential upside of 36.90%. Given E.W. Scripps' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe E.W. Scripps is more favorable than Altice USA.
E.W. Scripps has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Altice USA. Altice USA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than E.W. Scripps, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
E.W. Scripps beats Altice USA on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NASDAQ:SSP) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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