Gannett (GCI) Competitors

WEBTOON Entertainment (NASDAQ:WBTN) and Gannett (NYSE:GCI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and community ranking.

Is WBTN or GCI more profitable?

WEBTOON Entertainment has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Gannett's net margin of -1.05%. Gannett's return on equity of 11.40% beat WEBTOON Entertainment's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
WEBTOON Entertainment	N/A	N/A	N/A
Gannett	-1.05%	11.40%	1.21%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in WBTN or GCI?

76.7% of Gannett shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of WEBTOON Entertainment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Gannett shares are owned by company 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.

Does the media prefer WBTN or GCI?

In the previous week, WEBTOON Entertainment had 8 more articles in the media than Gannett. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for WEBTOON Entertainment and 3 mentions for Gannett. Gannett's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat WEBTOON Entertainment's score of 0.42 indicating that Gannett is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
WEBTOON Entertainment	1 Very Positive mention(s)	7 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Gannett	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor WBTN or GCI?

Gannett received 240 more outperform votes than WEBTOON Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.90% of users gave WEBTOON Entertainment an outperform vote while only 61.41% of users gave Gannett an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
WEBTOON Entertainment	Outperform Votes 13 61.90%	Underperform Votes 8 38.10%
Gannett	Outperform Votes 253 61.41%	Underperform Votes 159 38.59%

Do analysts rate WBTN or GCI?

WEBTOON Entertainment presently has a consensus target price of $14.36, suggesting a potential upside of 62.23%. Gannett has a consensus target price of $5.55, suggesting a potential upside of 53.74%. Given WEBTOON Entertainment's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe WEBTOON Entertainment is more favorable than Gannett.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
WEBTOON Entertainment	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.71
Gannett	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Which has higher valuation & earnings, WBTN or GCI?

Gannett has higher revenue and earnings than WEBTOON Entertainment. WEBTOON Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gannett, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
WEBTOON Entertainment	$1.35B	0.86	-$116.46M	-$1.44	-6.15
Gannett	$2.45B	0.22	-$27.79M	$0.01	361.00

Summary

WEBTOON Entertainment beats Gannett on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.