UONE vs. IHRT, AREN, SSP, CXDO, CRGE, TSQ, VOCL, BZFD, SGA, and UCL
Should you be buying Urban One stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Urban One include iHeartMedia (IHRT), The Arena Group (AREN), E.W. Scripps (SSP), Crexendo (CXDO), Charge Enterprises (CRGE), Townsquare Media (TSQ), Creatd (VOCL), BuzzFeed (BZFD), Saga Communications (SGA), and uCloudlink Group (UCL). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.
Urban One vs. Its Competitors
iHeartMedia (NASDAQ:IHRT) and Urban One (NASDAQ:UONE) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, risk, earnings and valuation.
Urban One received 44 more outperform votes than iHeartMedia when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.20% of users gave Urban One an outperform vote while only 35.53% of users gave iHeartMedia an outperform vote.
93.9% of iHeartMedia shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.2% of Urban One shares are held by institutional investors. 8.5% of iHeartMedia shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 41.3% of Urban One 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.
iHeartMedia currently has a consensus price target of $2.92, suggesting a potential upside of 82.29%. Given iHeartMedia's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe iHeartMedia is more favorable than Urban One.
Urban One has lower revenue, but higher earnings than iHeartMedia. Urban One is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iHeartMedia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
iHeartMedia has a beta of 1.75, indicating that its stock price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urban One has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Urban One has a net margin of -17.82% compared to iHeartMedia's net margin of -27.04%. Urban One's return on equity of 17.29% beat iHeartMedia's return on equity.
In the previous week, iHeartMedia had 3 more articles in the media than Urban One. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for iHeartMedia and 1 mentions for Urban One. Urban One's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat iHeartMedia's score of 0.91 indicating that Urban One is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Urban One beats iHeartMedia on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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:UONE) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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